8. Olympic Tank Brigade

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kenna and Madeline talk about The Olympics, competitive house-building, and why the LA School District has a literal tank.

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-schools-weapons-20140917-story.html

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/WYNpCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT7&dq=history+of+the+olympics

https://nolympicsla.com/faq/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/want-understand-1992-la-riots-start-1984-la-olympics/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/06/the-1984-olympics-fueled-l-a-s-war-on-crime-will-the-2028-games-do-the-same/

https://knock-la.com/why-did-casey-wassermans-mother-donate-to-david-ryu-before-the-la-2028-vote-in-2017-cfb6dc19533/

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/27/12026098/rio-olympics-2016-removals-eviction

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tokyo-olympics-displacement/

https://thinkprogress.org/21-savages-super-bowl-arrest-sparks-new-concern-about-ices-role-alongside-lapd-for-2028-olympics-e78e1118eac9/

https://deadspin.com/the-olympics-are-coming-to-tokyo-and-so-is-the-movemen-1837203511

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. Today I'm your host, Kenna. And I'm your co-host, Madeline.
0:28.6	Ooh. We're switching it up. We're, uh, we're being different. Yes. We're giving you varied and
0:36.3	diverse content. All right. To start off, I'm asking you
0:43.0	some questions. Okay. Some trivia, if you will. I'm ready. This is some Los Angeles trivia.
0:50.3	What does the Los Angeles School District? What do they not possess?
0:56.2	Oh.
0:56.8	A.
0:57.6	Grenade launcher.
0:59.2	B.
1:00.5	Tank.
1:01.2	Oh my God.
1:02.2	No.
1:03.4	Body armor.
1:05.0	D.
1:05.9	A trove of rifles.
1:07.8	What?
1:08.6	They have three out of the four of these things? Yes. I'm going to go grenade launcher.
1:15.3	Okay, this is technically you are correct. Okay. However, at one point, they did possess all of them.
1:22.2	Oh my God. And technically, the tank is a mineistant ambush protected armored vehicle, but I think you and I would call it a fun tank.
1:34.3	Oh my God.
1:35.5	Sadly, the UA, the LA USDA police had to return the grenade launcher, but they kept the armored vehicle slash tank.
1:44.1	Wow.
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