Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring

myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am great. How are you doing, Melissa?

We are upon the eve of, or crime con is tomorrow.

Well, it kind of starts tomorrow.

I don't know where I was going with that sentence, but it started off wrong, so I just bailed.

Yeah, so we're just getting all the last minute stuff done, which is everything, I think, right? Like in life, you can plan as much as you want. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm starting to realize that. I had like all these things in my head. I was like, you know, I'm just going to do a little each day this week until, you know, Thursday rolls around and then I'll be just like ready to go. But I don't't know I find that like you just everything is a last

minute thing you can't even do anything until the last minute so there's no point in trying I know

I'm like what can I do pack all of my clothes I wear those on a regular basis they are so going to be

here with me I can wash them and basically hope for the best, but who knows what's going to happen.

So the message here is procrastinate because there's truly no point in trying to get ahead.

I won't take that advice because I just cannot.

But I have like cleaned my entire van out, have the seats laid down.

I'm ready to bring stuff, ready to see you and get to spend time with you.

Yes.

And lovely listeners and other podcasters and my co-host from Criminality, Rebecca, will be there.

So it will just be, we'll have a good time.

Date with Dateline is doing a, well, this will all be over by then, sorry, but Date with Datline's doing a panel with Mank. So I'm very

excited to see that on Saturday. Yeah. It's awesome. And we're going to get to see Haley,

who we talk about all the time, and she's such a big part of the work that we do, and I am so

excited to be able to see Haley. So like you said, by time this episode comes out,

this has already happened. We've already met Haley and had such a wonderful time with her.

Right. Or what a disaster it was. And I'll edit this part out on Monday. Just kidding. But

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