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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

127. The Politics of Horror, Part 3!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and David talk about race and class in the politics of horror movies!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/c/pickmeupimscared

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Transcript

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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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