Hello!

And welcome to Very Amusing, Your One Stop Shop for the story,

secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-febled theme park journalist.

I'm Carly Waiselle, and I feel like my...

I don't know if you heard it, but it felt like my entire body had been holding that hello in for weeks.

My body was like, we got this.

And in case you can't tell, when you're going to listen a few minutes into the episode, I start the bulk of the episode, like the rest of the episode,

talking about how, like, wow, my lungs haven't reacclimated to speaking out loud this much.

Please know I recorded that before this intro.

This is the last thing I'm recording for the episode.

Just compare and contrast how throughout the episode, like, my breathing has improved.

My body has adjusted back to podcasting.

We are so back, baby.

We are back for 2025, even though this is technically asterisk, not a full-blown episode

and not the episode that I planned and scheduled for this week.

As you know, California.

We're going to get into it a little in this episode, but I'm trying to

keep things as positive as possible. So obviously, I've been a little preoccupied. I haven't

as much free time as I anticipated in this. I was like, this is going to be my only break in the year.

I'm going to just go through the whole year. I'm going to take these two weeks. I'm going to do pre-production for everything. And that didn't quite happen.

I evacuated. I was out of town. I was with Pearl. I was with my family. I was with friends.

I was gathering donations and delivering donations and doing so much digital stuff related to

...