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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

146. The Magonistas, Pt. 3!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This week, David and Madeline wrap up part 3 of our series on 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:26.7

Welcome to the episode.

0:30.0

Who are you, David? I'm David. No, you're the host.

0:33.3

I'm not the fucking... You are the host and I'm the co-host.

0:36.1

I feel like you say host and I think alien.

0:37.9

Okay, all right.

0:39.3

Yeah, sure.

0:41.6

You're hosting the communism deep within you.

0:42.4

I'm not.

0:44.1

No, I remember I'm right wing.

0:45.5

Right of her right.

0:48.3

I'm also eating a cinnamon roll while we were close.

0:49.6

Sorry to everybody.

0:51.4

This is, no, get real.

2:03.5

I was listening to some fucking podcasts the other day and they were, very proud of the fact that they got pizza on the podcast, and then they were very close-miked eating, like, a New York-style slice. I mean, I can see that. I'm sure there's some subset of people who are like, this is ASMR gold. Yeah, I think there's also a lot of people who are like, I have like misophonia, misophobia, and this is hell. That was, I was like, this is fucked up. Like, because I'm just hearing like the smacking sounds. So get malo, real close to the fucking mic. There you go. Did you like that? Was that good? Yeah. So we alienated probably 80% of people. I don't think 80% of people have misophonia. I don't think I was just like, I wasn't like, oh my God, I'm going to throw up. But I was like. Less than ideal. This sucks. I don't like, whatever information you are trying to give me. Not that. Not that important. That's why it's good that you're the host and I am just here eating a cinnamon roll. Okay. So, Madeline, before we started recording, I was like, hey, you should do an update on. Oh, God. It's so fucked up. Okay. So, as you guys know, I've been involved in a lot of the anti-ice action that's been going on around the L.A. area.

2:12.6

One story in particular that I've been pretty involved with is the people who are organizing directly with this woman's family is the story of a woman named Milagro Solis Portillo.

2:16.5

And you might have seen Milagro's case in the news because it was particularly brutal.

2:21.7

This woman was basically violently abducted in Sherman Oaks.

2:28.0

She suffered a miscarriage, a medical emergency, because of how violent the abduction was.

2:28.4

Yeah.

2:35.6

She was so brutalized by these ice agents that she ended up handcuffed for eight hours and covered in her own vomit in a van before they finally realized they had to seek medical care for while she

2:41.2

was having a miscarriage. It's a horrible story. The reason we know about this is because somebody

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