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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 135 minutes
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This week, Madeline and David talk about race and class in the politics of horror movies!
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/
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0:00.0 | 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 three of our multi-part Halloween-inspired series all about the politics of horror. |
0:35.5 | You know, if I just keep jibber jabbering enough, we can make it through |
0:38.7 | all of October. This is, maybe I was saying we could make this like our whole podcast going forward. |
0:44.3 | We're just a movie podcast now. We're just a horror movie podcast now. That is, I mean, that's popular, right? |
0:51.0 | It's very popular and it's less controversial. And I got to tell you, after seeing the whole internet come up with fanfic about me for a week |
0:56.8 | straight, maybe it's better to do things that are less controversial. |
1:00.1 | Oh yeah, that's right. |
1:01.1 | I was texting you last night that you were going to like evict all of your tenants. |
1:05.6 | Because I'm a landlord. |
1:06.5 | Do fake luxury renovations. |
1:08.7 | Right. |
1:09.7 | The internet's decided I'm a landlord because I helped someone I care about by a house. |
1:15.3 | And they decided that made me a landlord. |
1:18.8 | That is my definition of landlord. |
1:24.1 | Every landlord I've ever known, I'm thinking specifically of Peter who used to store industrial |
1:30.3 | old machinery in our garage and accused us all of smoking or dealing weed out of the house. |
1:38.3 | Uh-huh. |
1:39.3 | An old landlord of mine. |
1:40.3 | He helped you buy a house. |
1:41.3 | Yeah, and he and I was like real good buddies and like would hang out sometimes. |
1:47.0 | And he gave you the down payment to buy a house and agreed to carry the mortgage for you |
1:51.0 | because your credit score was too low and then drafted up a legal equity agreement. |
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