21. Who Profits From Our Fear?
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline & Kenna talk about danger, fear, and hot surfaces and substances!
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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. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay, Kenna, today I want to start out by asking you, what do you think poses the biggest threat to your safety? |
| 0:39.0 | Um, uh, myself. Um, What do you think poses the biggest threat to your safety? Myself. |
| 0:41.6 | Me doing stupid shit. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh, like accidental injury. |
| 0:46.3 | Accidental injury, health stuff. |
| 1:02.9 | I mean, I feel like statistically it's like yeah health stuff accidents car accidents maybe someone i know these are pretty good they're pretty on track with actual potential |
| 1:10.3 | threats to your safety and well-being. |
| 1:12.0 | Do you want to hear what the number one threat to your safety is? Sure. It's heart disease. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, I feel like I knew that. In my mind, I was like, it's probably cars, but heart disease |
| 1:24.3 | makes a lot of sense. Yeah, you have a one in six chance that your cause of death in your lifetime will be heart |
| 1:30.9 | disease. |
| 1:31.5 | Interesting. |
| 1:32.2 | It's pretty high, right? |
| 1:33.3 | It's pretty wild. |
| 1:34.8 | How? |
| 1:36.4 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 1:37.4 | Apparently, our hearts just hate us and they explode in our bodies or something. |
| 1:40.9 | Our hearts are fragile. |
| 1:42.1 | They're all, we're emo. |
| 1:43.7 | Oh. So all of this is |
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