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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

40. The Government Wants to Torture Your Teens

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the Troubled Teen Industry, what exactly freedom means, and what we all have in common with Paris Hilton!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. Hey, before we get into this episode, I wanted to take a second

0:27.7

to let you know that it is kind of a doozy. It references violence of a physical,

0:31.7

psychological, and sexual nature towards children and also references suicide. So if that

0:36.6

sounds like something that's going to be

0:37.6

difficult for you, we recommend you skip this one. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host,

0:43.6

Kenna. Right, Kenna, today, I was going to ask you a question, but I already do the answer, actually.

0:49.3

Oh, really? I was going to ask if you were a bad kid growing up, but I know that you were a bad kid growing up but I know that you were a good kid growing up I was good you like followed the rules and you got good grades in school and stuff right um I did the thing is though

1:01.3

everyone thought I was a bad kid all the other parents hated you right yes because I dressed weird and was

1:07.5

goth yeah that happened to me too but I was kind of a bad kid.

1:11.7

Like, I mean, I think all kids do bad stuff, but I don't think I was doing anything worse than any

1:17.3

other kid in any of my grades were doing. Like, I, maybe a little bit bad in high school, but

1:25.4

like not worse than like a lot of other people. What for you would be like a little bad in high school, but like not worse than like a lot of other people.

1:28.4

What for you would be like a little bad in high school? Like what were you doing?

1:32.6

Um, probably just drinking. Oh. Drinking and smoking. Yeah, maybe stealing a mascara from the CFS.

1:41.6

No, I never stole. Oh, I think we talked about that before. Okay, so like, did you

1:45.7

know any bad kids at, like, at your school? Were there any kids where you're like, that kid's

1:49.7

getting into trouble all the time? Okay, here's the thing where I, I had kind of a different

1:57.3

perspective on it because I feel like I grew up in a really small town.

2:02.0

So if you are strange or weird in any way, you have a target on your back. And I always felt that

2:07.6

like kids were unnecessarily picked on, not necessarily that the kids were bad in and of it

2:13.6

themselves. And there is, and honestly the kids who I thought were bad, like actual jerks, like actual assholes

2:22.7

were popular and got away with it.

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