4. Take the Subway to the Anarchist Moon Utopia
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Madeline and Kenna talk about public transportation, walking in LA, and the anarchist moon utopia!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. |
| 0:28.9 | And today, Kenna, I wanted to ask you, have you ever taken a bus in L.A.? A bus in L.A.? I have, but it was like many, many years ago. |
| 0:41.2 | I was like not even 21 years old. |
| 0:45.0 | So it was a long time ago. |
| 0:47.1 | So I have also taken a bus in L.A. one time. |
| 0:50.1 | It was to go to a music festival. |
| 0:53.7 | But I have taken the train, the subway. |
| 0:55.6 | Have you ever taken? |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, the subway, yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | I live by the subway. |
| 0:58.7 | It's cool. |
| 0:59.4 | It looks like a blockbuster video in Hollywood. |
| 1:02.0 | It does. |
| 1:02.3 | It's very 80s. |
| 1:03.3 | It looks like an 80s blockbuster video. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.1 | And I think I, so I used to take the subway as my only mode of transportation for a few years. |
| 1:11.6 | And I noticed it was always pretty empty, pretty abandoned, like even at rush hour. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, it's eerie, but it's cool. And it's weirdly like, it's nice. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, it is. So when I moved to L.A., I moved here from San Francisco. And San Francisco has like great public |
| 1:29.4 | transportation, you know, like the city's formal position as they're trying to make it as hard as |
| 1:34.3 | possible for people to have cars. So like everyone's cars would get ticketed nonstop and towed. And I moved to |
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