122. Air America, Pt. 2!
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David finish up our 2-part episode all about the CIA's airline, Air America!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. And today we are doing part two of our episode about Air America. Today, meaning next week, because we did record these all at once. |
| 0:36.5 | Well, you don't have to break the fourth wall like that, David. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm meta. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm postmodern. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm leotard. |
| 0:44.7 | You're ruining the listener experience. |
| 0:48.5 | I am Jeanette. |
| 0:50.9 | Here's a funny story. |
| 0:52.2 | Back when I was, I want to say, 14, I came across the term |
| 0:57.2 | meta-fiction for the first time. Okay. And I emailed some random-ass professor at like, |
| 1:02.6 | University of Arizona. Oh. Because I, it's like, early internet days where you don't have access |
| 1:09.4 | to like, like, it's like Yahoo or Ask Jeeves. |
| 1:13.6 | Right. |
| 1:14.3 | Right. |
| 1:14.6 | So like you're not getting good information. |
| 1:16.7 | You're getting a GeoCities website. |
| 1:18.3 | That's true. |
| 1:18.9 | I remember I had a GeoCity's website. |
| 1:20.8 | You had a geo. |
| 1:21.5 | What was your GeoCities website? |
| 1:22.7 | It was basically just pictures of me and Elise and Gillian that we posted with like really |
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