Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

140. AFRICOM -- Pt. 2!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and David wrap up our two-part episode about AFRICOM, Burkina Faso, and Traore!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Scared. The podcast.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:27.6	I'm your co-host, David.
0:31.1	And today we are back with part two of our episode about Afri-com.
0:31.7	Yep.
0:34.4	How's your week, Ben, David, before we get into it?
0:39.2	I, you know, we had like the gloom, like May gloom for a little while.
0:42.3	And then like, what, two days ago, it just got really fucking nice.
0:43.2	And now it's hot as hell.
0:44.9	Yeah, it's like 90 degrees outside.
0:46.7	And everybody in L.A. is feral.
0:47.5	Yeah, no.
0:53.4	The energy, it's giving manic energy a little bit.
0:53.8	Yeah. For now, it's on an ups a little bit. Yeah.
0:57.2	And for now, it's on an upswing that I really love.
0:58.5	Right. It's pretty fun out there.
0:59.3	It's pretty fun.
1:01.0	That's pretty fun. People are having a lot of fun.
1:03.2	Ellie's really thriving right now.
1:04.6	L.A. is thriving.
1:15.0	However, I, like, I'm like, I get the overwhelming sense that we're all in for a crash by, like, July.
1:15.7	Oh, yeah.
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