17. Vanlife & Other Dystopian Late Capitalist Nightmares!
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline & Kenna talk about #vanlife, the housing crisis, and that band The New Radicals!
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SOURCES:
https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/corporations-are-buying-houses-robbing-families-of-american-dream/
https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/23/how-much-housing-prices-have-risen-since-1940.html
https://outboundliving.com/van-life-statistics/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/29/is-van-life-a-freedom-movement-or-an-economic-crisis/
https://whereyoumakeit.com/converted-vehicles/stats/
https://archive.curbed.com/2019/4/3/18264579/van-life-millennials-campers-sprinter-air-stream-thor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/11/home-buyers-face-increased-competition-investors/
https://parade.com/643064/beckyhughes/working-homeless-population-grows-in-cities-across-the-u-s/
https://newrepublic.com/article/161807/van-life-nomadic-living-housing-affordability
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. |
| 0:33.8 | Okay, Kenna, today I wanted to talk about van life. |
| 0:39.3 | Ooh. Have you ever dreamed of living in a van? |
| 0:43.0 | Um, actually, I think yes. |
| 0:48.7 | I think at some point I wanted to like be in a band and like tour across the country. |
| 0:53.7 | But it's not the van life you would think about like hashtag van life. It would be gross, dirty punk rock fan life. |
| 0:58.5 | I like that. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, when I was in high school, |
| 1:00.7 | I always wanted to train hop across the country. |
| 1:03.4 | And then like a further extension of that |
| 1:05.3 | was I was like, oh, I could just get an RV |
| 1:07.3 | and I could drive across the country. |
| 1:08.9 | And then I could have a dog. So, but this was way back. |
| 1:12.5 | This was in like 2002, 2003. |
| 1:14.9 | I was thinking this would be really cool. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.4 | And now obviously like hashtag fan life is a thing. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.2 | And it made me think a lot about like why that in particular is so appealing and what it has to do with like the housing crisis. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. Um, it seems like it's like, well, ooh, well, I can't, you know, like, oh, we could just afford to live in a tiny van and make it cute. |
| 1:43.3 | Right. And so, okay, so I was on TikTok one day |
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