77. Cancel Student Debt...But Make it Sexy

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline & Kenna talk about student loans, the military budget, and why our congresspeople are are straight up freaks!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.
0:28.1	I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:32.9	And today, you might hear some gentle chewing noises in the background.
0:35.3	Yes, it's me gnawing on my bone.
0:39.6	It is my new rescue puppy fork.
0:43.2	She has a bit of separation anxiety that we're trying to work on.
0:47.5	So at the moment, she's being appeased with a yak milk chew.
0:48.1	Yes.
0:51.4	Which Kenna inquired, what the fuck that meant?
0:57.9	It's basically a vegetarian hippie dog treat. That's just a really hard block of dog-friendly cheese.
0:58.8	I thought it was like a weird hard sponge.
1:01.7	It kind of looks like a weird hard sponge.
1:03.5	It's like the alternative to giving your dog just like a bone or a rawhide.
1:08.0	What?
1:09.2	I don't know the... are those good for your dogs?
1:12.6	I don't know, they really fucking like them though.
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:15.3	They love those things.
1:16.6	Yeah, I've heard different things about whether you should give, but you know, I don't
1:20.4	have a dog, so it's like, I mean, I've had dogs in the past, but.
1:24.0	It's hard, it's hard. It's hard. To me, there's no right way to raise a dog as long as you take care of it and you try and you're nice to it.
1:32.0	That's how I feel kind of about like kids. Like you hear people just be like, I can't believe that parent did blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I don't know. The kid seems alive to me.
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