Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an an all new episode of Serialessly with me, your host, Annie E. Lease.

Today is Thursday, which means its headline highlights, and we have got so many cases to talk about,

so much stuff to go over. But first and foremost, I am very, very happy right now because I'm back

in California. I'm back in my studio. I'm back like in my Zen place. And I just feel like, feel so

good to be home. And I enjoyed being away and I enjoyed, I enjoy tour

and all that stuff, but like nothing beats home. That's why, you know what, that is why there's

the expression, home is where the heart is. Nothing beats being back in your space, right? And so

here, when I'm not like recording on the road, I just feel like I know where all my stuff is.

For the most part, I know how my tech operates. And it just makes things, you know, way more seamless.

I'm really excited to be back here. I also am really excited because in two weeks, I'm going to contradict myself right now.

Okay, guys. Because I'm talking about how excited I am to be back in my

studio, but I'm literally about to now go into another statement saying, in two weeks, I'm back out

on the road and I can't wait to do it. No, but for real, I am. We're back out on tour in two weeks.

We're going to hit Nashville, Raleigh, and Atlanta. That's the next leg of the tour.

They're almost sold out,

and I'm pretty positive all of the meet and greets are sold out, but there might still be like one or two left. So if you want to go and you're in Nashville, North Carolina, or Atlanta,

now would be the time to grab and secure those tickets. You can do that at Annieelis.com.

Just go to the tour tab. But this tour has been so much, I don't want to say better, but it's been so different from the last tour. We did meet and greets, of course, last tour as well, but I don't know. I always tell you guys this. And I probably sound so cheesy and so lame, but I don't care. I'm just going to say it because it's true and it's how I feel. But there is nothing like this. And I probably sound so cheesy and so lame, but I don't care. I'm just going to say it,

because it's true and it's how I feel. But there is nothing like this community that we have built.

And meeting so many of you in person has just been honestly, like, not only so rewarding, but so

fun. Because when we see each other for the first time, we hug each other, because I'm a hugger, and you guys immediately, it feels like we're friends, like you're talking to me about your bachelor's party, your relationships, this case you can't stop researching. And I, you know, for me, I feel like it's rewarding because that's my goal of this podcast, right? Is like, I feel like I'm talking to my best friends on here. I'm talking obviously to a camera and to like dead space in the air. But when I'm talking, I picture just talking with like my sister or my best friends. And so when I meet you guys in person and you run up to me hugging me like I'm a friend you haven't seen in a year, I'm glad because I feel like it's resonating that way.

That's how it's, I don't know.

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