Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

I'm your host Madeline. I'm your co-host, David.

And today we are back with part two of the politics of horror movies.

Speaking of a horror show.

But this is our second time recording it, and David is always so bad about, like, not breaking the fourth wall.

You broke the fourth wall.

Well, you said it in a way that communicated that something weird was already happening. No, I was just, I was trying to remember the goddamn words that I said, because I think it was wittier the first time.

I think this is going to be witty.

I think it's going to be fine.

Okay, okay. I think this is going to be witty. I think it's going to be fine. So we have, we're already getting

into spooky season, horror season. All sorts of terrifying things are happening to us.

Yeah, I mean, mostly, like, I put too much of the Yucoteca hot sauce on my eggs and potatoes,

and now my stomach hurts. Yeah, that's horror, body horror. Body horror.

Yeah. You're having a whole shit show of it. I'm having a whole experience. I am fighting we talked about this last night on the Patreon thing. $3 a month, and we're reading Susie Kim's Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution.

Yeah, go check it out.

Which is spectacular.

But I, like, you literally only said like a few factual things, which is you had been offered some money.

I was offered $13,500.

And your politics do not align with the Democratic Party.

So you will not be voting for Kamala Harris.

I made a video and I said, just so you guys know, the Democratic Party has been offering influencers money to say good things about the Democratic Party.

They offered me nearly $15,000. I later went and checked the actual math. It was $13,500.

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