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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

23. Sixteen Personality Types & All of Them Are Maladjusted!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about personality tests, the red scare, and what type of bread you think you'd be if you were a bread!

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https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:28.9

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

0:34.7

Okay. Kenna, today I want to ask you, what is your Enneagram number?

0:38.3

Oh, we talked about this at work. I am a tragic four.

0:42.2

Right.

0:42.4

And what's the four?

0:43.4

The four is basically like you are the tortured artist and no one understands you

0:49.5

because you are so special.

0:52.1

You are creative, but you're possibly, you know, forlorn and have bouts of melancholia.

1:00.7

Yeah, everybody in the office is a four except for like three of us, right?

1:04.4

I know.

1:05.1

Everyone works a four.

1:07.8

I'm an eight.

1:09.3

I know.

1:09.9

Lucky.

1:10.5

I don't know about that. I'm an eight wing seven. To lucky. I don't know about that.

1:11.2

I'm an eight wing seven, to be more specific.

1:13.9

Do you know your wing?

1:15.2

I think I'm a wing five.

1:17.1

Oh, what does that do?

1:18.6

I think five is like, it's like you're a researcher.

1:25.6

You're a studious researcher, so or you're like in a you're a studious researcher so or you're like an eccentric

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