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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about libraries, the Americanization of immigrants, and third spaces!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK PRE-ORDER:

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

SOURCES:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Stoics

https://www.britannica.com/topic/library

https://www.rsl.ru/en/4readers/about-the-rsl

https://lis653.wordpress.com/2020/11/04/soviet-library-classification-schemes/

https://www.nonviolenceny.org/post/exotic

https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-homestead-strike

https://www.jaha.org/attractions/johnstown-flood-museum/flood-history/the-club-and-the-dam/

https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries

https://www.theculturecrush.com/feature/bodies-of-knowledge

https://www.ala.org/news/sites/ala.org.news/files/content/state-of-americas-libraries-special-report-pandemic-year-two.pdf

https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/if-libraries-are-about-finding-the-truth-lets-be-honest-about-their-decline/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/what-are-the-real-third-places/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/86470-u-s-book-show-why-america-needs-libraries-more-than-ever.html

https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/libraries-should-be-third-places/

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https://medium.com/@raquelgocastro/library-as-a-third-place-e891dac6519f

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https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/changing-the-racial-demographics-of-librarians/

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/09/15/who-uses-libraries-and-what-they-do-at-their-libraries/

https://yubanet.com/regional/nevada-county-library-zine-collection-launch-and-free-punk-show/

https://bplolinenews.blogspot.com/2023/01/BPL-1st-Punk-Rock-Show.html

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https://www.lapl.org/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:27.0

I'm your host, Madeline.

0:28.6

And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

0:32.7

All right, Kenna, should we start with housekeeping as usual?

0:36.7

Yes, first of all, thank you so much for listening.

0:40.9

And thank you to our Patreon supporters.

0:41.7

Yes.

0:48.5

If you'd like to support us on Patreon for $3 a month, you get two bonus episodes.

1:00.0

You get bonus content, like budgeting tips, grocery food budgeting tips. You can ask us questions. That's where you can send us episode ideas. So yeah, at patreon.com slash pick me up. I'm scared.

1:08.0

Yes, my only housekeeping thing to add as usual is that book pre-orders are still going on.

1:13.1

And I'll include a link in the description of the episode where you can click if you want to pre-order

1:17.8

my book called I Survived Capitalism and all I got was this lousy t-shirt. It's coming out in January

1:23.2

and you can pre-order either the actual physical book or the audio book, which I will be reading.

1:29.0

Cool.

1:29.8

Even though I am bummed that it won't be me.

1:33.2

Yes.

1:34.0

Impersonating you.

1:35.0

No, I know.

1:35.6

Being like, hi, I'm Madeline.

1:38.7

Well, I think the book publishers decided ultimately that people connect with my voice, even though it's shrilling grating,

1:44.3

and they associate it with me.

1:45.8

I don't think it's shrilling grating.

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