Welcome back. It is episode 13 of the My Maria 777 podcast. This is your host, Maria,

and I'm so fucking excited to have you here. Episode 13. Look how far we have come. This is my first month officially.

Actually today, it marks my, the cherry on top of my first month. And I have almost hit, I did

not quite hit, but almost hit 10,000 downloads.

And I am just so fucking excited about that.

And I thank you so much.

You're amazing.

You're the ones downloading.

You know, half of those downloads might actually be from me, but no, I'm just kidding.

I really appreciate those of you who have subscribed and those of you who are listening. And I'm just so excited.

Thirteen's actually one of my lucky numbers.

I always like to be different growing up, beating to my own drum.

So I actually chose 13 to be my number when I played basketball because everybody would

say oh that's an unlucky number and I thought bitch that's my number come on now I am going to go

ahead and apologize for the quality of this podcast first off the quality of my podcast is really never that great

because I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck I'm doing and I need to upgrade my software

and mics. I really wish I had a producer that I could just pull out of my pocket at any time,

but this one was really out of kind of left field.

We didn't initially anticipate that we were going to be recording

because I got to tell you, first, I was on a date last night,

my first date since December.

And I'm always looking for somebody tall, dark, and handsome, and I'm always looking for somebody tall, dark, and handsome, and this date was

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