3. Everyone In Power Has Lead Poisoning

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode, an unusually sleepy Madeline & Kenna talk about serial killers, politicians being evil, and eating paint chips! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared Sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/02/12/boomers-silents-still-have-most-seats-in-congress-though-number-of-millennials-gen-xers-is-up-slightly/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/296974/us-population-share-by-generation/ https://www.vox.com/2015/2/13/8032231/crime-drop https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5703470/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014498316300109 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190123112330.htm https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/get_the_lead_out/pdfs/health/Lead_Exposure_Linked_to_Violent_Crime.pdf https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/ https://discovertheodds.com/what-are-the-odds-of-being-murdered/ https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-crime-declines-in-america/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-lead-poisoning-science-met-20150605-story.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/?sh=3fdd8b5a12c4 http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/lead/Documents/Boomers%20exposed%20to%20higher%20levels%20of%20lead.pdf https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/03/08/bruce-gibney-sociopaths-baby-boomers https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/12/13/baby-boomers-worst-generation/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-depressing-chart-shows-the-jaw-dropping-wealth-gap-between-millennials-and-boomers-2019-12-04

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:28.6	I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:31.6	So, Kenna, today I wanted to ask you,
0:35.6	what do serial killers and U.S. politicians have in common?
0:37.0	Oh.
0:40.6	Do you have the time?
0:46.6	This sounds like a joke, which I don't know the exact answer to,
0:49.3	but I'm guessing there's some sort of fucked up similarity.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:53.1	Well, what I had down is that they're shitty,
0:55.4	and they might be that way because of lead poisoning.
0:58.4	Oh, okay.
0:59.4	Yeah.
1:05.2	I have heard something about lead poisoning being correlated to crime.
1:09.2	Yes, that is the lead crime hypothesis is what it's called.
1:13.4	So statistically in the U.S., you know, we're the safest we've ever been as a country. For the past 30 years, violent crime rates have been plummeting
1:17.7	here, falling over 50%, along with property crimes, which have fallen by 43%. And you know how our
1:24.8	culture has like an obsession with crime, obviously.
1:29.3	We consume crime as entertainment.
1:33.1	And that obsession also translates into serial killers, right?
1:37.9	Like every media thing you consume seems to revolve around a serial killer in some way now.
1:40.1	It made me think of that.
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