157. The Armenian Genocide - Pt. 2!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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This week, David and Madeline do part 2 of our episode series on the Armenian genocide!

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see part 1 :)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me If I'm Scared.
0:02.0	Hello, I am your host today and we don't have an intro track anymore.
0:08.0	No, the thing we record on changed. It's a new company. It lost our things somehow.
0:14.0	Fabulous. The internet has been killing it. It's not become a horrible hellscape where you can't find anything or do anything.
0:21.8	Yeah, AI is definitely improving the quality of our lives.
0:25.4	Oh my God. And it is not a speculative bubble that we all in a very minsky-ass fashion
0:31.7	are going to have to bail out using public funds. That's not going to happen.
0:36.4	We're not in a Minski moment. And I'm not even like pro, I think minsky. using public funds. That's not going to happen.
0:39.1	We're not in a Minski moment.
0:40.6	And I'm not even like pro.
0:42.9	I think Minski has a lot of shit,
0:45.0	but he is the Minsky thing, which we talked about on Patreon.
0:47.2	Yes.
0:48.6	That the financial bubbles happen
0:53.2	with or are abetted by confidence that the lender of last resort, the Fed, will bail out financial institutions when they get into deep.
1:06.6	Right. Also, I feel like we're not checking the sound now on the new setup, but you might have to get closer to the microphone. Oh, do it? Well, we should be equal distance. Okay. I don't. Don't touch it. That's the code of somebody's ears. I don't fucking know about it. This is good. I think this is good. I think we're good. If you can't tell I'm a natural of podcasting, This is what I was born to do.
1:27.9	Your listeners go easy.
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:30.3	We're giving you our best.
1:31.3	It's been a hard two months.
1:33.3	Yeah.
1:34.3	This has been.
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