154. Nazis, Cookies, and Ronald Reagan -- Pt. 3
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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This week, Madeline and David talk about the history of American intervention in Ukraine, part 3!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm Scared. The podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, Madeline. I am your co-host, David. |
| 0:27.9 | And today we are back with part three of our multi-part series about the Ukraine-Russia conflict. |
| 0:35.9 | Yep. And as always, I'm just going to say it. We're going to do shit. |
| 0:41.7 | And your dog is going to slowly destroy your office. You know, sometimes Fork just wants to do a backflip off |
| 0:47.8 | the couch. And I think that she should have that freedom. I look, I'm not against it. I'm just |
| 0:52.6 | saying for those listening at home, the crashing sound. |
| 0:57.2 | Les Fork trying to do a backflip off of the couch and failing. |
| 1:00.5 | She's not a graceful creature. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.6 | But she's ambitious. |
| 1:03.6 | And I don't want to, you know, kind of get that ambitious spirit knocked out of her too early. |
| 1:09.5 | You know, I dealt with like an ambitious, it's kind of like a doxen all day. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, David has been nannying. |
| 1:19.2 | Which was essentially being punched in the head repeatedly by a three-year-old for 10 hours. |
| 1:24.4 | That's what I imagine having a kid is like. |
| 1:26.2 | And then I tried to take her outside to run around to get some energy out. |
| 1:32.1 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:32.7 | And she kept trying to jump down an entire staircase into the basement. |
| 1:38.3 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, I could see that looking fun if you were a little kid, especially if you had like |
| 1:43.8 | a pillowcase tied around your neck or something. |
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