Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats.

The show is about to begin.

I am so viscerally afraid of accidentally texting the chief of police.

Kind of weird, that's all she wrote.

You are in my thoughts and prayers in perpetuity.

Now, mind you, I don't even have the chief of police's phone number, and why would I?

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to monologuing.

I'm Mads Mitch, and I'm your host today and always

because well, quite frankly, this is literally my podcast. So who else is going to host it?

Happy freaking Monday. It is Monday December 8th question mark. Happy Monday, December 8th question mark.

I hope you had a fabulous weekend. I hope you're feeling well rested and rejuvenated and ready

to tackle whatever life might throw at you this week. And I don't think

that that's asking too much of your favorite podcast host. Deep breath. Okay. So excited for

this week's episode. We are doing a gossip wrapped. We're doing a year and review gossip edition.

I asked you guys for the juiciest gossip that you've heard literally all year and we are going to comb through that together piece

by piece. I'm very, very excited to get into that. We have a ton of gossip episode in a minute

so that I fear is going to hit really, really hard. But before we get into that, let's dive into

act one. What have I been up to? That's honestly a great question. I know I wrote some things down.

Yeah, the first thing I wrote down was chicken salad with curry. That's what I've been up to.

So that's what you missed ungly. Um, no, honestly no honestly honestly i've had a very shitty week i

mentally have been in turmoil um i'm i'm fine now i just it was it was a tough week and now i'm

playing catch up and kind of suffering the consequences of that.

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