153. Nazis, Cookies, and Ronald Reagan -- Pt. 2
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about the history of American intervention in Ukraine, part 2!
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared/posts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up. I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm your host. Are we doing a video thing for this? Is that what's happening? |
| 0:30.2 | Yeah, but now I already started the recording. So now this is in the video. |
| 0:34.5 | I mean, like, you know, I just got out of the shower. I got home from a very rainy day in Los Angeles. |
| 0:40.6 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:42.3 | And, like, I combed my hair. |
| 0:46.7 | Oh, yeah, looks kind of nice. |
| 0:47.7 | I can kind of tell. |
| 0:48.4 | You kind of look like an old-timey ghost right now, actually. |
| 0:52.9 | Don't love that. |
| 0:54.1 | You're kind of backlit and everything's gray and hazy. Yeah. right now, actually. Don't love that. |
| 0:57.5 | You're kind of backlit and everything's gray and hazy. |
| 1:01.7 | My dad watched one of our Patreon episodes. |
| 1:02.4 | Oh, great. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, that's not great. |
| 1:09.5 | And his one comment was, David, you have to comb your hair. |
| 1:10.8 | Oh, my God. That was his one comment? All right, you have to comb your hair. Oh, my God. |
| 1:12.0 | That was his one comet? All right, Dad. Yeah. You know, the real dad moment for him. Could be worse. Yeah. For anybody who doesn't know, it's raining in L.A., which means the whole city is shut down. We are not equipped to deal with the rain. We don't know how to deal with this. I believe it was like an inch every hour was falling in LA or something insane like that. |
| 1:30.3 | I mean, that's crazy. It's crazy out there. |
| 1:33.3 | It's wild out there. Things are flooding. People are panicking. I cut the tip of my finger off today making a soup. |
| 1:40.3 | This has nothing, that has nothing to do with the rain. |
| 1:43.3 | You don't know that though. |
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