43. North Atlantic Treaty Disorganization

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about NATO, Somali pirates who are sick of our nuclear waste, and why you should not just chew it! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://tinyurl.com/yc7b47jt https://tinyurl.com/2p8vj97z https://tinyurl.com/552unr82 https://tinyurl.com/n68nz4hh https://tinyurl.com/yc7b47jt https://tinyurl.com/y9cjhevr https://tinyurl.com/4znnuphs https://tinyurl.com/4a2zz5cb https://tinyurl.com/5n8ua42v https://tinyurl.com/2v3jwvde https://tinyurl.com/2s3p9db5 https://tinyurl.com/9xwzspz6 https://tinyurl.com/zz5yrjba https://tinyurl.com/mrxuvr7c https://tinyurl.com/bdzfst5m https://tinyurl.com/5yvrcktf https://tinyurl.com/yckzp4d6 https://tinyurl.com/yckkf46b https://tinyurl.com/3fdv24da https://tinyurl.com/2wmcx64f https://tinyurl.com/2p8ksjrv https://tinyurl.com/yexcuhyu https://tinyurl.com/bdfst6hm https://tinyurl.com/ph6pwu4u https://tinyurl.com/ycx34p8a https://tinyurl.com/yz27995k https://tinyurl.com/27ew2kk5 https://tinyurl.com/4d36znuf https://tinyurl.com/48nzd9rh https://tinyurl.com/23n6mkbc https://tinyurl.com/yjtrvv9p https://tinyurl.com/ytb4wc2 https://www.jstor.org/stable/368437 https://tinyurl.com/yw5292bn https://tinyurl.com/98au5y5c https://tinyurl.com/ywywpnmn https://tinyurl.com/362hj2bw https://tinyurl.com/ywywpnmn https://tinyurl.com/5n6smtv4 https://tinyurl.com/yf88aa8a https://www.space.com/space-race.html https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17858981 https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17632399 https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226538.shtml https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18023383 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 https://fpif.org/russia-ukraine-nato-and-the-left/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:26.4	I'm your host, Madeline.
0:28.2	And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:35.4	Kay, Kenna, today's question is either the easiest question to start an episode or the hardest, depending.
0:36.8	Oh, geez.
0:39.9	What is NATO?
0:43.9	NATO, isn't it the... Wait.
0:46.6	NATO.
0:47.6	Oh, I was thinking NAFTA.
0:49.1	I was like, it's the North American free trade agreement.
0:53.5	I'm like, acronyms don't match.
0:56.1	Isn't NATO the, I don't know what it stands for, but isn't it, like, formed after
1:02.8	World War II?
1:05.3	So, like, the countries made, like, a pact to where, like, if one country invades another country will all join
1:13.4	together.
1:14.4	Like if like, for example, like England got invaded by, I think it was mainly against
1:22.4	Russia.
1:23.4	Like if England got invaded by Russia, the United States and all these other countries would join England automatically because they have this agreement.
1:31.6	And as my understanding is that it is basically a Cold War thing.
1:37.0	Yes, you nailed it. You totally nailed it.
1:40.7	I always knew it was like a military alliance, like a team of super friends that say if you mess with
1:46.1	one of us, you mess with all of us.
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