Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. And today we are doing

something a little different. You know, on my way here, I was listening to the Suspheria soundtrack.

Oh, you were getting prepared. I was getting, this was my research. Okay, great.

Well, some people on a Patreon were like, oh, I love the podcast, but it's nice when you guys do a

palette cleanser that's not just like the CIA did terrible things and then a bunch

of people in a labor union got shot.

Yeah, I mean, we could do that episode with our topic, which is horror, because those are all horrifying things.

It is, it is.

But yeah, today we wanted to do something that's a little palate cleanser, and since it is October, everybody loves Halloween.

You know, my other proposal for today was like, why don't we do the International Longshoremen's Association strike and the Boeing strike, which would, I mean, I don't think anyone's been shot, well, except for...

Except for the people who were shot.

Or fell out of an airplane.

Right.

Or fell with an airplane.

Right, right, right.

But this is, it's going to be light.

I think it's going to be like.

It'll be fun.

It's going to be a fun episode.

I will say when we were debating on it over message or whatever, I was like, I don't want to do the whole history of like horror as like a genre going back to the ancient Greeks. And Madeline, what did you say? I said you got to do the whole history of like horror as like a genre going back to the ancient Greeks and

Madeline, what did you say?

I said you got to do the history of horror going back to the ancient Greeks because here's

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