Hello, everyone and welcome back to Parked Car Combos. I'm Maddie Mitchell and I'm your host today and always because well quite frankly this is

literally my podcast so who else is going to do it happy freaking Monday it is January 13th and

and what a day it is I am sitting down on January 12th, yeah, early morning, January 12th to record this

episode. I tried to record it. Well, I was planning on recording it on Friday. And then I became an

emotional wreck, parentheses, not cute. Parentheses, gross. And I decided, let's not do this today. And then same thing

kind of happened yesterday. Yesterday was more of like a rock bottom deep depression where I was

thinking there's, I don't think I can be silly in this moment. And so I acknowledge that. And I said,

we'll put this off one more day. And here I am.

Here I am. We're going to get into the bottomless pit of despair momentarily, which is like really

I'm sure that's all what you guys came here for on this beautiful Monday morning. You were like,

yeah, let me sink into a bottomless pit of despair alongside mattie well

you know you just never know what you're going to get here apart tour combos i'm kidding we're gonna keep

it fun and light for the most part but i do i do need to chat because i'm just i just i haven't

chatted about a certain topic and i need to kind of, I need to

chat about it. But ultimately, this is our first gossip episode of 2025, which is so exciting.

For those of you new here, I think we will have a few new listeners this episode.

For those of you new here, every month, we do a gossip episode where I ask on my

Instagram story for you guys to write in with the juiciest gossip in your possession. And the

beautiful thing about this is I do it through a Google form. So it's all 100% anonymous. I can't,

I can see nothing about you, just the thing that you write. And I read it

here on the podcast. And it is, it's like we're all kind of at a slumber party gossiping with each

other, which is really, really beautiful. And the thing that's also really beautiful is like,

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