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 monologging.

I'm Mads Mitch, and I'm your host today, and 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, October 20th. It is my mother's birthday. Everyone say, happy birthday, Maddie's mom. Happy birthday, mom. She's probably on her way to work as she's listening to this. So I hope you have a fabulous day, mom. I love you so much. I'm so excited for this week's episode. We're doing October gossip. I have a lot to catch you up on. But 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. Wow. Okay. So let's start with Act 1. We'll get into the gossip in Act 2.

Act 1. Let's catch up for a sec. This last week's episode was a teensy bit delayed. That's my bad. That's my bad. I thought I really

thought I had everything under control. And I'm, I'm recording this episode today along with two others.

God and God bless me and God and may God bless me in my quest because I don't know how I'm going to do this.

Because I need to bash some episodes because I'm traveling.

The thing, every single time I travel, I forget how long it takes me to prepare to travel,

like without fail.

I don't know.

Nothing about me historically ever has been described by anyone, including myself, as easy, breezy.

And yet, for whatever reason, I treat packing and preparing for a trip like I am the easiest,

breeziest girl in the world. And that is just a bold-faced lie. Like, it fully is. And so I find

myself, I find myself facing the consequences of that lie every single time.

So last week, or I don't, I have no concept of time.

When I, when I recorded last week's episode, I was feeling on top of the world.

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