Hey guys, and welcome to our very first ever mailbag bonus episode.

Yay.

Is that what we're calling it, Melissa?

I mean, until somebody comes up with a better name and that somebody will not be me.

So feel free to send in your suggestions.

Yeah, I'm actually very excited about this.

This is such a fun, different thing to do for us.

Yeah. It is. If you weren't, well, if you weren't here, if you were absent last week when we talked about what we were doing here, Melissa,

what are we doing here? Oh, thank you for passing the ball to me. Basically, we ask people to

share some stories, either one person sent in like a local news story from their town, which is

absolutely hilarious. Other people send in things of family members who may have committed,

you know, low-stakes crimes. So we're going to do it this week. We'll figure out if you guys like

it. If there's anything you want to send in, we would love to share them. This is kind of like

a fun way to do something a little lighter.

It's not on Patreon.

It's not a subscription thing.

Since we're no longer doing lasting before we go, we thought this would be kind of a fun thing to put in its place as a little bonus.

Yeah.

And it gives us a little freedom to just have a little fun and chat a little bit.

Absolutely. So, Mandy, have you ever had an experience with the mailback? Do you ever send in, like, comments on these kind of things? Because I can only think of one time I've done this. I don't. I feel like I used to try and do stuff all the time when I was younger, you know, like a teenager. I would always be the one that wanted to like text the radio station or try to be the 10th caller or whatever.

And it never worked for me, right? So like I feel like I just learned very early to give up on things like that.

And I do not write into mailbag things anymore because I just

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