Hello everyone and welcome back to Park Car Convos. I'm Maddie Mitchell and I am 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 and

merry freaking Christmas so crazy reporting to you live on Christmas day I'm kidding

I'm recording this literally two weeks in advance but that's really none of my

business nor is it yours I'm so glad you're here with us I'm so glad you can be with

us on this day I'm sure most of you who celebrate Christmas are probably not listening to this episode

on Christmas day and that's totally fine.

Literally could not be more fine with me.

I appreciate you whenever you listen to this though, it's important to me that you know that it is this is our second this is our last no this is our last episode of the year which is crazy that That is so crazy. Last episode of 2023. What a fabulous year it's been.

A great great year for the podcast and for myself and I hope it was a fabulous here for you and if maybe it wasn't the best I hope

2024 is everything you've ever wanted it to be in war and I just want to give a huge thank you as I do almost every episode now I'm starting to get a little bit a little bit redundant but thank you so much to anyone who has supported the podcast this year.

It really does mean the world to me,

and the podcast has grown so much in the past year,

and that is continuously just like the coolest thing

that's ever happened to me.

So thank you, thank you.

And I recorded, actually I recorded last week's episode

just yesterday, but we already have reached

the goal for both Spotify and Apple Podcast ratings and wanted to hit

500 5 star ratings on Apple Podcast and 1,000 on Spotify. On Spotify we have 1.2,000 now which is crazy and on

Apple we just got over last night at 505 which is amazing. But this is your

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