15. $1 Trillion Coin Heist
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and Kenna talk Modern Monetary Theory, magic wallets, and why real estate is a multi level marketing scheme!
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm'm scared the podcast i'm your host madeline and i'm your co-host kenna okay kenna today i wanted to start |
| 0:30.6 | by asking you when you were a kid did you ever wish for like a really subtle superpower not like a one. Like you could fly or like walk through walls |
| 0:40.2 | or be invisible, but like something just a little more practical. Um, oh my gosh. I don't think I |
| 0:49.9 | literally ever thought about it. I think like the closest thing to a superpower would be like, |
| 0:54.8 | this is kind of embarrassing, but I was really in, for a second, really into like the Anne of Green |
| 1:00.6 | Gables books. Oh, me too. And like, I read all of those and all the Wizard of Oz series, which is like, |
| 1:08.5 | they're weird. But anyway, but I think what I would wish for would be to be, like, alone, like, |
| 1:16.5 | and be more, like, insightful and special and magical. |
| 1:20.6 | Or, like, Anne of Green Gables would be, like, a good writer. |
| 1:24.4 | So superpower, maybe the power of being more interesting than the other little |
| 1:34.5 | kids in my small town, which now I'm like, wow, that was so narcissistic and awe, so a sad, |
| 1:40.4 | lonely Kenny. It's cute, though. I get where it comes from. |
| 1:45.2 | You're like, I feel alone. |
| 1:46.5 | What if I could be alone in a special way? |
| 1:48.2 | So maybe like the power of communication? |
| 1:53.5 | Oh, maybe. |
| 1:54.8 | I think that was it. |
| 1:55.9 | I think maybe I still wish for that that I wish my superpower was to actually be a good communicator |
| 2:02.7 | than a weird one. |
| 2:04.1 | I appreciate you being a weird communicator. |
| 2:06.2 | I like you. |
| 2:07.5 | Okay, so I think about this sometimes because when I was a kid, I had like a really weird |
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