6. Big Gun Starring Nicholas Cage

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline & Kenna talk about military overspending, Nicholas Cage, and how much money you should spend on grenade launchers to defend your 1 bedroom apartment!

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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.
0:29.0	Okay, today, Kenna, I wanted to ask you, what percent of your paycheck do you spend defending your home?
0:42.1	Defending my home? You know, like guns, video cameras,
0:47.6	maybe like a small tank, maybe outfitting your sick infinity to be more like a small tank.
0:57.6	Grenades? I have made, you know, the other, well, I didn't pay any money for, I never pay any money because I just lock my door and that is it. It's free, isn't it? The door lock. I mean, I pay for it in my rent,
1:03.9	so I assume that when the super comes over and changes the lock when it doesn't work right than doing something.
1:12.8	Yeah.
1:13.0	I only recently started using my deadbolt.
1:16.5	I didn't realize that I had a deadbolt for like years.
1:22.3	So I would say that maybe it's safe to say like 10 to 20 cents of your monthly rent goes
1:27.4	towards defending
1:28.2	your home in the form of that sweet sweet deadbolt tax basically i think yeah i think every year every
1:38.7	other year my mom gets me like a mace or like a oh that's pretty that's pretty good. Yeah. For like a stock,
1:44.5	like a stocking stuffer. Yeah, I get one of those too a lot. Those are maybe
1:49.3	$15, $15 a year, whatever that is, a dollar or not paying for that. I don't think I've ever,
1:55.9	no, I don't, I don't have nothing. Huh. So what you're telling me is that you do not currently spend 2% of door monthly income on transportation,
2:07.0	4% on housing, 7% on education, 9% on health care, 29% on like bills, and then 49% of your
2:15.2	income monthly defending your home.
2:16.8	You're not doing that? No. No. I probably spend,
2:20.9	yeah, I mean, most of my income probably goes to rent. Right, right. Well, you know, that would be
2:26.3	the breakdown of the 2022 federal budget proposal. I think I knew that's where you were going with this.
2:37.0	And just in case you work better in numbers rather than percentages, the average American
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