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

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

Kenna, do we have general housekeeping things to take care of before we start the episode today?

Yes, first of all, thank you for listening, and especially a big thank you to those who support us at our Patreon. It is patreon.com slash pick me up. I'm scared. And for $3 a month,

you can listen to at least two bonus episodes per month. You can get access to cool things. Like we have a budgeting

spreadsheet. Yes. You can leave comments. You can ask questions. And usually I will answer them.

Yes. We're also wrapping up our book club, our most recent book club. And while our book club in real

life will continue, I feel like probably we won't do book club for the recent book club and while our book club in real life will

continue I feel like probably we won't do book club for the bonus episodes anymore we'll get

into some more things people have requested some more one-on-one stuff with our Patreon

subscribers maybe yes and Kenna is working on getting some really cute merch together

that I'm super excited about um also for housekeeping, I wanted to talk about something you mentioned to me the other day,

Kenna, which is that we're currently in the top 1% of podcasts in the world.

Yeah, I guess if you have over 5,000 average listeners, You're in the top 1%.

Within your first week, which we definitely do.

But when you told me, I was like, God, is that really true?

And I looked and, yeah, there are over 5 million podcasts in the world.

And we are in the top 1% of them.

Whoa, we are the 1% now.

They are the podcasting 1%.

Yes.

But it's cool because I feel like relative to my other social

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