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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

15. $1 Trillion Coin Heist

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 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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