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 doing a very topical episode about something we are experiencing here in Los Angeles.

The Queen Mary. Not the Queen Mary. The Queen Mary was delightful. The reason why David saw the Queen Mary was that I was under an evacuation order for like one weird night

that turned out, like turned into nothing. And I felt very silly when I came home and all my

neighbors were like, yeah, man, we've been chilling.

I mean, I think, obviously we're talking about the Los Angeles fires.

Yeah.

I think that if there's a question about whether you should stay or go, you should probably just go.

And if you have the option in the stay or go conversation to go to the Queen Mary have a lovely cocktail

and I guess look at the Long Beach Pier.

Yeah.

Why not fucking take it?

Sounds lovely.

The only thing I will say is I have heard of some people who are in locations of Los Angeles,

definitely not threatened by fire, who were like,

the evacuation orders are definitely about me individually, definitely yes, and then they just

clogged the traffic of the people who actually needed to evacuate because they might add.

Oh, yeah.

And it's like, just read the room, maybe let those people get out first before you start hypothesizing about all the myriad

ways this could potentially affect you that it is currently not. Maybe let those people have

access to our famously crowded highways and freeway systems first to leave to get where

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