Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

139. AFRICOM -- Pt. 1!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline & David talk about AFRICOM, Kony 2012, and whether or not X is a rockabilly band!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:26.3	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:27.5	I'm your co-host, David.
0:28.5	And we are back.
0:31.4	Uh, we've been kind of having a weird one lately.
0:32.4	We haven't been as consistent.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:34.3	There was some illnesses.
0:35.8	Everybody in L.A. had COVID.
0:36.8	Was that COVID?
0:38.2	I am pretty sure it was COVID. It was, I was sneezing. I don't think you're supposed to.
0:41.4	I think you get every symptom with COVID. I think everything's COVID. I'm pretty sure it's
0:45.2	COVID. I, I tested for COVID. I definitely had one of the worst flus I've ever had.
0:51.7	Did you test with the over-the-counter antigen test, though?
0:54.4	Because those things haven't worked since, like, 2021.
0:56.8	They don't do any of the variants.
0:58.7	I went to the kiosk by my house.
1:02.0	Okay.
1:03.8	I don't know.
1:04.6	I don't know either.
1:05.2	I was just like, this is a flu.
1:07.8	This is the worst flu that's ever existed.
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