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

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

And we are excited to be here with a new. I think it's going to be a series, a multi-parter.

How many are we looking at?

I'm vibing two.

I'm vibing a two-parter.

You know, I love when we, when I don't have to do anything for like two weeks.

I know, because we did all the research.

I was researching last night until 3.30 in the morning.

That seems like your mental illness talking.

Is it mental illness or is it mental wellness?

I would love to see the goop page on our current topic where it's like, you know, if you get internet poisoned, you should also begin talking about the U.S.

security state.

Oh.

And it's not because of the internet.

This is not a reaction to the internet.

No, but it is, I guess it's enabled by the internet. Maybe for Elon Musk.

Maybe this is Elon Musk getting, it's a reaction from him against the

internet, honestly. So you've been, oh, you said, should we talk about the thing that's happening in

your life? Oh, I get canceled again. I said, I said we are, I'm actually going to reduce it. We're

putting seven minutes on the clock. I feel like seven minutes.

I think that's good.

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