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82. SponCon Artists of the 21st Century! Jul 17, 2023

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This week, Kenna is out but Madeline and Lizzie talk about sponsored content, the evils of Flat Tummy Tea, and how advertising is making us all miserable! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://tinyurl.com/nx9dcdp9 https://tinyurl.com/dc52u7e3 https://tinyurl.com/2sr8tua3 https://tinyurl.com/2zpuuwnt https://tinyurl.com/3n9smhat https://tinyurl.com/ywyp3s6c https://tinyurl.com/3bjehd73 https://tinyurl.com/bddbf3tx https://tinyurl.com/5dtb54sv https://tinyurl.com/yc6zaarp https://tinyurl.com/abzwk4ds https://tinyurl.com/5e63c2vr https://tinyurl.com/bdhhakx2 https://tinyurl.com/mtzmmjcb https://tinyurl.com/3x2c839n https://tinyurl.com/4h6edre3 https://tinyurl.com/2yx9vt6m https://tinyurl.com/kf8anrrv https://tinyurl.com/3t5v9j7a https://tinyurl.com/54chww2h https://tinyurl.com/53yzu2yh https://tinyurl.com/vjtv6u4x https://tinyurl.com/y36hw884 https://tinyurl.com/4a4dj8mc https://tinyurl.com/y44yhuuy https://tinyurl.com/yeyvnt5t https://tinyurl.com/3aydhmsv https://tinyurl.com/mrxkny6x https://tinyurl.com/3xdvjhva https://tinyurl.com/mxuudnz5 https://tinyurl.com/yvsdu3wd https://tinyurl.com/5xc5nz9w https://tinyurl.com/y2ckyrdn https://tinyurl.com/yv8xcdxb

81. Puppy Love <3 Jul 10, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about dogs, cats on leashes, and being too punk rock for zoo camp!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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80. Bimbos Against the IMF! Jul 03, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the IMF, colonization, and being blonde!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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https://tinyurl.com/vn2kz473

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https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/argentina-and-imf

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https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/ostry.htm

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https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/165818/jamaica-debt-2013-06.pdf

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/anti-globalisation/

https://archive.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/imf/protest.htm

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp965.pdf

79. CEO Cage Fights Jun 26, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about CEO pay, cage fights, and why rich guys love tubes so much!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/261463/ceo-to-worker-compensation-ratio-of-top-firms-in-the-us/

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/blog/ceo-vs-owner/

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/human-resources/2018/11/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/harvard-study-what-ceos-do-all-day.html

https://www.rfrajola.com/Resources/1782Act.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/07/us-wage-gap-ceos-workers-institute-for-policy-studies-report

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/average-ceo-pay-rose-11-in-2021-and-is-now-399-times-more-than-the-typical-workers-wages-11664895973

https://www.zippia.com/rivian-automotive-careers-1411678/salary/california/

https://businesschief.com/leadership-and-strategy/top-10-highest-paid-ceos

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/ceos-got-smaller-raises-it-would-still-take-the-average-worker-2-lifetimes-to-make-their-annual-pay

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tesla-hit-with-complaints-wage-safety-violations-texas-plant-2022-11-15/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/60-percent-of-Apple-employees-say-they-are-underpaid.318192.0.html

https://endhomelessness.org/blog/employed-and-experiencing-homelessness-what-the-numbers-show/

https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/11/21/low-wage-work-is-more-pervasive-than-you-think-and-there-arent-enough-good-jobs-to-go-around/

https://www.texasobserver.org/tesla-elon-texas-workers/https://www.studysmarter.us/explanations/microeconomics/poverty-and-inequality/gini-coefficient/

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/income-inequality-increased.html

https://www.epi.org/multimedia/unequal-states-of-america/

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90770163/the-age-of-greedflation-is-here-see-how-obscene-ceo-to-worker-pay-ratios-are-right-now

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/business/nightcap-ceo-pay-inequality-twitter-musk/index.html

https://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-pay

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ceo-pay-compensation-increase-7-7-inflation-equilar/

https://www.businessinsider.com/top-ceos-make-399-times-more-than-workers-2022-10

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2022/05/23/ceo-worker-pay-gap-widens-and-employees-arent-happy-about-it/?sh=ccc4235142c0

https://time.com/6256076/most-overpaid-ceos-2022/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/business/ceos-pandemic-compensation.html

https://www.statista.com/statistics/261463/ceo-to-worker-compensation-ratio-of-top-firms-in-the-us/

78. License to Mentally Ill Jun 20, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the mental health industrial complex, iPhones causing dyslexia, and how we are NOT doctors!!! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/06/systemic-violence-mental-health-industrial-complex/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022167819830516 https://tribune.com.pk/story/2379778/therapy-industrial-complex https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/medical-industrial-complex https://jaapl.org/content/49/4/590 https://jaapl.org/content/early/2021/08/27/JAAPL.210012-21 https://msmagazine.com/2021/07/20/mental-hospitals-prison-industrial-complex-mental-health-illness-women/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202207/serotonin-imbalance-found-not-be-linked-depression https://sites.tufts.edu/prisondivestment/the-pic-and-mass-incarceration/ https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/afsc/tic_report_online.pdf https://jacobin.com/2022/03/anti-psychiatry-movement-mental-illness-psychological-suffering https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/07/22/abolition-must-include-psychiatry/ https://connect.springerpub.com/content/book/978-0-8261-2518-7/part/part01/chapter/ch04 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-mind/201305/is-depression-real-disease https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635547/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/attention-deficit-disorder-anticapitalist/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental-health-political-issue https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db172.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/may/20/mental-illnesses-depression-pms-culturally-determined https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3635&context=jssw https://worldchannel.org/press/article/decolonizing-mental-health-race-communities/ https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/03/stop-the-treatment-industrial-complex-000061/

77. Cancel Student Debt...But Make it Sexy Jun 12, 2023

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

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-great-recession-affected-millennials-2019-8#the-recession-has-contributed-to-the-rise-in-crippling-student-loan-debt-5

https://thecollegeinvestor.com/32031/average-student-loan-debt-by-year/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-gets-younger-senate-gets-older-a-look-at-the-age-and-generation-of-lawmakers-in-the-118th-congress/

https://www.salary.com/research/salary/posting/tenured-professor-salary

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/12/the-bennett-hypothesis-turns-30/

https://dustyoldthing.com/electronics-prices-change/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/08/31/a-new-study-investigates-why-college-tuition-is-so-expensive/?sh=46802d6617a0

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/11/14/recent-college-graduates-have-the-highest-unemployment-rate-in-decadesheres-why-universities-are-to-blame/?sh=79e24d93320b

https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/why-is-college-expensive/

https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/unemployment-earnings-education.htm

https://www.thirdway.org/report/which-college-programs-give-students-the-best-bang-for-their-buck

https://www.creditdonkey.com/television-statistics.html

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1957/10/04/Soviets-beat-US-first-into-space/1021624841129/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/politics/college-costs-student-loans-federal-aid/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/politics/us-student-loan-debt-timeline/index.html

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/you-can-pause-two-student-loan-payments-but-should-you

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/student-loans/debt-relief-lawsuits-qa

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-student-loan-debt-trends-economic-impact

https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-crisis

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/student-loan-debt-crisis-breakdown-4171739

https://scholarshipamerica.org/blog/the-far-reaching-impact-of-the-student-debt-crisis/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/06/this-is-how-student-loan-debt-became-a-1point7-trillion-crisis.html

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-26/The-U-S-student-debt-crisis-and-why-it-is-strange-to-China-VJtuZPfLtC/index.html

eplan.com/what-countries-offer-free-college/

https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/harvard-political-review/waste-greed-and-fraud-business-makes-world%E2%80%99s-greatest-army

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-has-the-us-given-ukraine-since-russias-invasion/

https://quincyinst.org/2022/02/03/what-a-waste-778-billion-for-the-pentagon-and-still-counting/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/09/bidens-new-whopping-866b-defense-budget-request/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/tuition-free-college.html

https://fortune.com/education/articles/how-does-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-impact-borrowers-and-the-economy/

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/10/738506646/student-debt-forgiveness-sounds-good-what-might-happen-if-the-government-did-it

https://educationdata.org/what-happens-if-student-loan-debt-is-canceled

76. Out of This World! May 22, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about aliens, UFOs, and horny air pirates!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://tinyurl.com/264mdeuz

https://www.axios.com/2021/07/06/aliens-exist-poll

https://tinyurl.com/23rhyry8

https://www.history.com/news/ufo-sightings-credible-modern

https://tinyurl.com/jnea7sj3

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-reports.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/politics/pentagon-ufos.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/us/politics/ufo-report-us-pentagon.html

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https://sgp.fas.org/library/ciaufo.html

https://vault.fbi.gov/UFO

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005517742.pdf

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/about/

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https://www.seti.org/

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Roswell-incident

75. Panama (Not The Van Halen Song!) May 15, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about the Panama Papers, how hard it is to get into the show Succession, and why we need a general strike!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8951058/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/04/472985787/heres-what-you-need-to-know-so-far-about-panama-papers

https://www.whistleblowers.org/news/five-years-on-the-panama-papers-still-demonstrate-the-importance-of-whistleblowers/

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/panama-papers.asp

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Panama-Papers

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-35954224

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/the-panama-papers-how-the-worlds-rich-and-famous-hide-their-money-offshore

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore

https://www.prasadcpa.com/blog/the-panama-papers-explained/

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/

https://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58012903

https://www.dw.com/en/malta-demands-justice-for-slain-reporter-daphne-caruana-galizia/a-41069715

https://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56fec130a1bb8d3c3495ae00/

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/08/mossack-fonseca-law-firm-hide-money-panama-papers

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/09/david-cameron-questions-gift-mother

https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article/32/11/4117/5315531

https://panamapapers.investigativecenters.org/nigeria-2/

https://www.dw.com/en/malta-blogger-daphne-caruana-galizia-killed-in-car-bomb-attack/a-40977557

https://panamapapers.org/

https://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11369400/panama-papers-guide-biggest-findings

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35958762

74. Parents Just Don't Understand! May 01, 2023

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about parenting, wandering into traffic, and bathing your kids!

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https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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73. Dr. Phil Gaslit Me Into Being a Narcissist! Apr 17, 2023

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This week, Kenna is out but Madeline talks about pop psychology, monkeys talking on telephones, and what exactly Madeline's positivity ratio is!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

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