Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

How are you?

I am doing pretty dang good, I think.

I don't have any complaints.

I think I'm doing good.

Sometimes I hesitate to say I'm doing good because I'm like, wait, am I doing good? But I think so I don't have any complaints. I think I'm doing good. Sometimes I hesitate to say I'm

doing good because I'm like, wait, am I doing good? But I think so. Do you ever go to bed and you have these thoughts on your mind and you're just an absolute mess and you wake up the next morning and you literally don't know what you were freaking out about? I mean, new things come up. But I can go to bed sometimes and I'm like, tomorrow's going to be the worst day of my entire life. And I wake up and I'm like,

what was I freaking out about? That's so weird.

Yeah, there's, there really is nothing like a good night's sleep to just kind of reset

the reality in your brain. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. My kids started school this week.

Yours are starting school next week. So we're both kind of

getting in the groove, figuring all of this out. And it's a good and exciting time. And everybody's

kids are doing pretty good. So like, knock on everything. It's amazing. It's starting good.

I know. Yeah. We talked a little bit before we started recording about our oldest kids who, as we've said

before,

they're new teenagers. Mine's not quite there. He'll be there in a couple months. But he told me that he was excited to start school this year. He thinks that this is going to be his year. And so I was like, wow, I know. This is amazing. I'm happy to hear that. This is perfect. I couldn't ask for a better a better attitude going into the new school year. So, yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy that you're happy. And yeah, everything sounds good.

Come what may. Next week, it could be a whole different story. But right now, everything looks good. And I wanted to say thank you. So many people send in some mosquito repellent ideas. I saw that.

Yeah. So I was going to make like a little list and put it on Instagram or whatever.

If I have not tried any of these things out, but if people are like me and your youngest son and looking for something, then maybe they have have some options they can check out. So thank you everyone for sending those in. I'm going to try them all. Yeah. Right? I know that's the thing.

I'm going to end up covered from head to toe in all of them and totally fine with it. Definitely. Definitely. All right. So to get us into the episode for this week, I wanted to talk about this poll that I saw on social media recently because I thought it was kind of interesting. And this poll asked,

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