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

I'm your host Madeline.

And I'm your host, David.

And today we're going to be talking about PETA.

I don't like them.

You know, I entered this thinking I had misunderstood PETA. And then I came out of it, and I was like, I did misunderstand them, but what I learned, I liked less.

They, I, you know, I will say they are enjoyable sometimes in the way good trolls are enjoyable.

Right? Sometimes reading about them, sometimes reading about them is really annoying and, in the way good trolls are enjoyable. Mm-hmm.

Right?

Sometimes reading about them,

sometimes reading about them is really annoying and depressing and makes you feel angry.

Yeah.

A lot of the times it's like, that one's kind of funny.

Yeah, sometimes there's some funny things.

Oh.

Well, before we get into it, we'll start with some bookkeeping.

Holiday schedule. We will be off for the next two weeks.

Is that right?

I think so, yeah.

I'm going to be going with Chris to see his family.

We were in the final stretch of our book pre-order.

So for anybody who hasn't pre-ordered in my book yet, I survived capitalism and all I got

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