150. But What About Vuvuzula?
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about Venezuela, Chavez, and mustaches!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up. I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host Madeline. I'm your co-host, David. I don't know. I feel like the microphone is too close to me. Say something. Something. Yeah. I think we'll just leave this in and keep going. I feel like that's better. I said, I, okay, so one of the things I, not buy my own will. |
| 0:44.7 | Someone asked me to read the Spotify comments. |
| 0:48.1 | Oh. |
| 0:49.5 | Apparently I am like a little brother. |
| 0:52.1 | Really? I didn't see that. |
| 0:53.2 | Being taken on a museum trip. |
| 0:55.4 | Who said that? |
| 0:56.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:56.9 | Okay. |
| 0:57.3 | In that episode. |
| 0:58.1 | No, no, for the last one. |
| 0:59.5 | But we're not going to look it up now. |
| 1:01.2 | And I will say, yes, I did interrupt your fucking flow of being like a chirpy TED talk. |
| 1:09.6 | Well, I didn't even notice that was happening in the comments. |
| 1:12.7 | But... |
| 1:13.1 | Saying I've got shooters. |
| 1:14.7 | But I will continue to interrupt your fucking flow. |
| 1:18.3 | I think that's important. |
| 1:19.8 | I think that's... I think I need that. |
| 1:21.5 | We got to... |
| 1:22.4 | I need to be interrupted. |
| 1:24.0 | Like, if what you want is a chirpy TED talk, I'm sure there is some sort of AI software that edits me out. |
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