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Welcome to the bad broadcast. My name's

Maddie. Thank you for being here. I am fueled up and ready to go this week. I just

finished my chomps and I've got a full 44 ounces of electrolytes next to me. Choms are so good.

Can't think too hard about them though. I can't think about what's in those. Okay? They also,

you know, beef sticks, meat sticks in general really kind of gross me out because

when I was in junior high, I sat next to a kid who would suck slim gyms until it was just the casing.

And that really turned me off from meat sticks literally until I found choms like two years ago.

So I'm fueled.

I'm ready to go.

I saw Les Mis this weekend at the Eccles

theater in Salt Lake City. It was incredible. This is what, so Gray got me tickets to Le Miz

for my birthday. Nope, no, for Christmas. And I've been really looking forward to it. As you guys

know, my daughter's name is Cosette. And I just, I love Broadway, as so many of us do. I love Le Miz.

Le Miz is a, it's not, how should I phrase this? It's a, it's a lot of legwork for a play. Okay. It's a lot. Like, if you don't know the story, if you don't know what's going on,

it's hard to catch everything that's being said slash sung. So I was a little nervous going into it

because Gray had never seen, he hadn't even seen the movie, didn't know anything about it. I'm like,

you have a daughter named Cosette. I feel like you should probably see this at some point. So I was a little nervous. So after the first act, I was like, okay, like, I'm going to suggest that we leave because it's long.

I mean, three hours of Les is a lot for a first time, for a first timer. And he loved it. He was like,

I want to stay. I want to see what happens. He said, I got to see what happens with the resistance. I got to know how this ends. So we stayed and it was amazing. We also weirdly sat next to a girl named Gray. Shout out

to Gray. She said she listens to the podcast. As we walked by, she mentioned it. And I was like,

oh, hi, I'm Maddie. This is Gray. She was like, yeah, I'm Gray too. What are the chances? Isn't that crazy? So anyway, it was amazing. Also,

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