24. Heaven Is Not Having to Worry About Paying Your Phone Bill
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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This week, Madeline & Kenna talk about communism, the red scare, and why nobody has room for nuance anymore!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. |
| 0:41.4 | Okay, Kenna, today, I wanted to ask you, what are some things that you have heard other Americans call communism that are like probably definitely not communism. |
| 0:51.3 | Oh, you mean like, uh, like you mean like food stamps or something? Yeah, exactly, exactly. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, probably like, well, now it'd be your, I don't know, like Cal Fresh or, but when I was grown up, it was food stamps. |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, I've definitely heard that free health care is communism. |
| 1:03.6 | Oh yeah, free health care is communism. |
| 1:06.3 | I've heard paying taxes is communism. |
| 1:08.8 | What? |
| 1:09.3 | Oh, yeah, that's a good one. |
| 1:10.8 | I thought that, okay. I've heard paying taxes is communism. What? Oh, yeah, that's a good one. I thought that, okay. |
| 1:13.1 | I've heard that wearing masks is communism. |
| 1:16.3 | Okay. |
| 1:17.3 | I've heard that having no iPhones is communism. |
| 1:21.3 | Okay. |
| 1:22.4 | Someone recently told me that not being able to dye my hair would be communism. |
| 1:28.3 | Huh? |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, all sorts of random things. |
| 1:31.3 | Okay. |
| 1:32.3 | And I know, I just know a lot of people in the U.S., like with their whole fiber and sense |
| 1:37.1 | of being, they just really hate communism. |
| 1:40.4 | Yes. |
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