Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Scared, the podcast.

The podcast.

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David.

Welcome everybody to part two of our episode about the School of the Americas.

Yay. It's terrifying and horrifying and awful. This is where they become the school formerly known as School of the Americas, right?

We're going to get into that, but we're going to talk about some other countries first.

Yeah. Did we do Columbia last time?

We ended on Columbia last time, and we're kind of going in alphabetical order through some, like, key player countries.

So we're going to start on Costa Rica. But before we get any further, just like general

housekeeping stuff, like I wanted to say thank you to everybody who came to the Santa Cruz

Philadelphia and Brooklyn Days. Oh, yeah. How was it? It was very, very fun and nice. And I think

we had a really good time. And I don't have any book events planned so far, but tentatively in the works is doing a Fresno thing in August to help the South Tower District, a queer community housing trust for Fresno.

Where is South Town? Is that like over on like Belmont area? Yeah, I think it's like kind of Belmontie.

So that'll be exciting.

So if you're in Fresno around Fresno, probably in August, I'll go there to do not

something book related, but some talk about housing.

Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah, it'll be cool.

And then over on our Patreon, we missed some bonus episodes last month. We had some health emergencies come up in both of our lives

with people we care about, et cetera.

So it didn't happen because we were trying to keep people alive.

So that's okay, though.

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