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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

130. The Potato Famine - Pt. 2!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline & David wrap up part 2 of our series on the Potato famine!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm your host Madeline and I'm your co-host David and we are back we and we said in our

0:11.8

Patreon book club it was like oh this is the end of Zoom and then I like a total dumbass got

0:17.9

the flu so I am recording from underneath a blanket um and in my bedroom so hopefully

0:27.0

the sound quality is okay yeah we're doing zoom so you guys let us know what you think of the

0:31.2

sound quality the um hopefully it's all right yeah I got I got like a, new to me laptop. I'm not buying new computers.

0:41.2

I don't have new computer money. It's not 20 years old. So I think this is better. Maybe it'll work.

0:50.3

Maybe it'll work. Well, you guys know we've been gone for our holiday break. So we're officially

0:54.0

back with part two of the potato famine. And you guys have been asking me a lot when

0:59.2

part two is going to come out. So thank you for bearing with us during our winter break. You

1:03.0

guys know we usually take a break in August and in December. So those are our two scheduled breaks.

1:07.8

And this month, we might be working on a new format for the podcast in

1:11.8

cahoots with Means TV, which would be exciting and give you guys an opportunity to

1:16.6

a video podcast, but we're still working out the details on that.

1:20.6

You are accustomed to people seeing you.

1:26.2

I think of myself as like a disembodied voice in the ether.

1:34.2

That's my form of existence.

1:39.0

So when you propose that to me, I was like, I'm going to have to get like a fucking haircut.

1:46.3

That's dumb.

1:48.5

I don't, what, Madeline, how was your December?

1:51.5

Okay, first of all, I'm going to say, you should really try to undersell it so then people are pleasantly surprised when they see you visually.

1:59.2

I, I am a bizarre, ogre-like, troll, like bridge-troll kind of character.

2:12.6

I have many prominently placed and unappealing scars.

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