145. The Magonistas, Pt. 2!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

This week, David and Madeline do part 2 of our three part series about border control and the Mexican revolutionaries the Magonistas!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/c/pickmeupimscared/posts

SOURCES:

Hernandez, Kelly Lytle. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:28.1	I'm your host, David. And I am your co-host, Madeline.
0:33.2	And today, after a little bit of a break, you know, 2025's not a real year.
0:35.0	It doesn't exist. It doesn't count.
0:39.8	Like, we are continuing our story of the Magnistas.
0:40.5	Yes.
0:42.5	Madeline, can you give us a recap?
0:43.1	No.
0:44.6	Okay, I'll try.
0:46.8	Okay, who was Porfirio Diaz?
0:47.9	Who was Porfirio Diaz? Okay, I don't remember proper nouns, but I'm going to tell you the story without proper
0:50.9	nouns as I remember it.
0:53.1	Okay.
0:53.5	She was the president of the goddamn country.
0:55.0	How do you...
0:56.0	I don't remember proper noun.
0:58.0	It's a thing.
0:59.0	I have a condition.
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	So here's the story though.
1:02.0	There is a bunch of Spanish dudes, a bunch of colonizers, like, we're gonna do a king here.
1:08.0	And then all the people are like, we're not in Mexico and then one of the guys who's
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