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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

84. USA Bad (The Jeju Massacre & Imperialism in Korea)

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the Jeju Massacre, the US' involvement in Korea, and just a lot of honestly really horrifying things. :/

MADELINE'S BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars

https://tinyurl.com/sza8sj7

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3867849/

https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Sino-Japanese-War-1894-1895

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/portsmouth-treaty

https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea

https://tinyurl.com/bdz94ana

https://tinyurl.com/42s7jt5k

https://www.history.com/news/korean-war-causes-us-involvement

https://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1435

https://tinyurl.com/3rb3t47p

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/korean-conflict#background

https://www.history.com/news/north-south-korea-divided-reasons-facts

https://www.newsweek.com/ghosts-cheju-160665

https://tinyurl.com/bdz2e48h

https://tinyurl.com/mr3rnn4j

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29737953

https://www.britannica.com/place/Korea/Division-of-Koreahttps://tinyurl.com/ytn2fymj

https://tinyurl.com/mtb4rr2h

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Treaty_of_Ganghwa

https://www.britannica.com/event/Korean-War

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

0:28.3

All right, Kenna, before we get started on today's episode, housekeeping. Yes, first of all,

0:33.4

thank you so much for listening. And if you would like to support us financially we are on

0:40.5

patreon at patreon.com slash pick me up i'm scared and for three dollars a month you get at minimum two

0:49.5

bonus episodes we have other fun things on, such as a little budgeting spreadsheet that we

0:57.9

made, stuff like that. You get more. You do get more. And also sometimes we post photos or like

1:05.0

image content that's related to the main episode every week. And people seem to like that stuff

1:09.9

too. Yes. Yeah. It's just, it's a good way

1:14.0

if you want to support us by, you know, since we don't do ads here. Yes, since we don't do ads and we

1:22.3

want to keep the main episode ad free, Patreon is the way that we monetize the podcast and all of our

1:26.9

labor. And I know,

1:29.5

obviously, our sound quality is kind of an issue on this podcast. So we're hoping that if we're

1:34.5

able to get the Patreon up to enough where it makes sense for us to maybe hire someone to help

1:38.5

us figure out the sound quality. Yes. That is, you know, we want to just make it better and be more

1:43.8

like pod is life. Yes. And again, that is only $3 per month. And if you are an OG Patreon member, you are still staying at $2 a month. That is true. You get a discount. Yes. Inflation doesn't apply to you, baby. You're love to. Yeah. Sorry, those are, you know, the OG besties, but we love new besties.

2:03.2

We love everybody.

2:04.4

Also, the bonus episodes that we're doing for the month of July, one is already up.

2:09.6

The second one will be up, I believe, on Monday, tomorrow, the last day of the month.

2:13.2

And they are ADHD hacks and tips from us.

2:16.9

From us.

2:17.9

Not from doctors, just from two people trying to survive with ADHD.

2:21.5

Two hot people with ADHD.

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