Hey guys, welcome or welcome back to the podcast for your friends, Maddie and Lauren.

And we are back for another episode. Today, we are going to talk all about living in LA.

I feel like this is a topic we get asked about kind of a lot. I think more so the comparison between Ellen in Toronto,

which we will touch on. But I thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss because we do

have a little bit of perspective. We'll give you guys the whole background of like how we ended up

living here and stuff when we dive into the episode. But before that, let's share some life

updates. Laura, why don't you take it away?

Yes, I'm trying to think of what has happened since the last time we podcasted because I wasn't on the podcast last week. And I think it was before I finished school. So I'm finished school now.

I finished the semester like a little more than a week ago. And since then, I've been home and then I spontaneously

decided to go to Toronto for the weekend, or I guess for like four days, to surprise my mom for

Mother's Day. So I just got back on Wednesday, and today is Friday. It was super fun,

just kind of hung out with the family, went to a lot of workout classes

with my mom, just kind of everything she wanted to do. Yeah, that sounds like a nice Mother's Day

for her, for sure. My life update, I guess I don't really need to give much of a life update because

I was on the podcast last week, but I plan a trip to

Toronto as well for the end of the month, so I'm excited for that.

We're kind of getting into summer here, so Lauren's back.

Obviously, she's not in school anymore, so she's working for me, so that'll be very exciting.

We're going to, I think, officially start next week.

So lots of exciting things to

look forward to this summer. I don't know. Honestly, I don't even have that much plan, but it'll be

nice just to get back into a good work routine, have some trips to Toronto, and then we'll see what

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