Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. And today, we have a really

exciting episode. You know, I feel like we're back in your wheelhouse. We really are. This is

Madeline 1.0. This is really few things are as relevant to my

interest as today's episode. Which is Madeline got to spend a whole day reading the CIA archives, I think.

Yeah, well that happens all the time. I don't... I do that just for fun sometimes. You gotta get a better hobby.

I think it's a great hobby.

Have you thought about juggling?

I actually did learn how to juggle in high school.

I don't know if you remember this,

but I got kicked out of all the PE classes,

and the only P.E. class left was theater movement,

the nerd P.E. class.

And I went in that, and there were like four programs you did, like one per term or something in the class. And the first one was juggling. So we did juggling, loved it, finished juggling. The second was fencing. But the theater movement teacher hated me.

Yeah. So he stabbed you with a fencing.

Well, actually, he said in front of the whole class that I was so verbally abrasive, he feared I might become physically abusive.

And then I said, oh, what, you think I'm going to stab Jillian with a fencing foil?

Because our friend Jillian was my fencing partner.

And then he yelled, you've made your decision.

And then I yelled back at him making fun of his voice,

you didn't ask me your question, or something like that. And then he got upset.

And then I left the class.

And then my counselor was like, did your mom know any doctors?

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