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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

53. How To Change Someone's Mind in 10 Steps or Less!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 132 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about changing people's minds, cults and conspiratorial thinking, and the difference between growing up in Massachusetts versus Mississippi! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://tinyurl.com/4fu6dmx6 https://tinyurl.com/2p93h4ua https://tinyurl.com/2hb3udb3 https://tinyurl.com/fytkadk4 https://tinyurl.com/yckub3ja https://tinyurl.com/2p9ey3yj https://tinyurl.com/3jfmzu9u https://tinyurl.com/kjk2z3fv https://tinyurl.com/22kfa63j https://tinyurl.com/6m7ye66f https://tinyurl.com/224rn7bw https://tinyurl.com/bdfues2h https://tinyurl.com/yr9wsdvx https://tinyurl.com/2s35b5tu https://tinyurl.com/36y7cdfa https://tinyurl.com/2r5rbks7 https://tinyurl.com/wbtmaxvv https://tinyurl.com/ye24dvkb https://tinyurl.com/2p9c3vc8 https://tinyurl.com/4v5ju7f3 https://tinyurl.com/2jr45hj2 https://tinyurl.com/3ua7kyub https://www.buzzworthy.com/15-conspiracies-that-turned-out-to-be-true/ https://www.agcs.allianz.com/news-and-insights/news/civil-unrest.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/perspectives/qanon-cult-truth/index.html https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646394/full https://www.livescience.com/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories https://bakadesuyo.com/2019/12/change-someones-mind/ https://thriveglobal.com/stories/what-shapes-our-opinions https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-conservative-states https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-liberal-states https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1017/s0022381613000996 https://hbr.org/2020/07/how-to-actually-change-someones-mind https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/colloquy/winter-2020/changing-minds https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/americans-lgbt-opinions.html https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-08203-005 https://psych2go.net/7-psychological-ways-to-change-someones-mind/ https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/facts-dont-change-peoples-minds-heres/16242/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-political-opinions-change/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:31.7

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna. It's our first episode back after our August hiatus.

0:37.1

Yay, Leo month. It was indeed a Leo month. We took August off because we were both Leo's.

0:58.6

And we wanted time to celebrate our birthdays. Yeah. How was your month off from Pod? What did you do for your birthday? I went to Colorado to see my parents. It was really nice. That sounds nice. It was really nice. Yeah, it was just like I just hung out in my small hometown and I feel like I'm definitely one of the weirdest people there.

1:01.0

But maybe not anymore.

1:01.6

I don't know.

1:04.8

I learned two things about Canyon City actually while you were gone.

1:05.1

Really?

1:05.7

Yes.

1:06.1

Okay.

1:10.8

The first thing I learned is that it is C-A-N-Y-O-N. Yeah, it's- I thought it was like a canyon with a Y.

1:13.4

No, it's like Canyon.

1:14.9

It's like not, I'm pronouncing it wrong, but it's like, it's like the till day over the N.

1:21.9

And people very much are like, no, we don't want the why, but it's pronounced Canyon.

1:28.2

The same.

1:28.7

Okay, yes.

1:33.1

And then the second thing I learned about Canyon City is that it is widely considered to be one of the ugliest towns in America.

1:36.6

Really?

1:37.3

I saw it on a list and all these people were like, you might think Canyon City's beautiful

1:41.0

because Colorado and the Royal Gorge.

1:43.7

But no, it's ugly here and we hate it.

1:46.8

Really? I would honestly say that might be probably. Okay, because there's a lot of really old

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