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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

21. Who Profits From Our Fear?

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 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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