Hey guys, welcome or welcome back to the podcast. We're your friends, Maddie and Lauren.

And we're back for another episode. Apologies for my voice today. I feel like I sound sick on the podcast

every week, but I just have an allergy to Los Angeles, it seems. And I am constantly stuffed up.

So sorry about that, but we're just going to have to make

do for today.

Yeah, we're dealing with some allergies right now, but we'll get through it, I imagine.

And you believe that the doctor really told me that the allergy is just to L.A., like the city,

it's not allergy season, it's just smog and normal city, like allergens and irritants.

He's like, yeah, well, sorry, that's just kind of what people have to deal with here.

Has it always been like this, though?

I feel like no.

But this is not allergy season.

People get allergies in the spring, so I have no

idea what's wrong with me. Lauren is back in her hotel room. I'm still in my house, recording our

podcast remotely, but we're going to give you a little life update today. I don't think we've done

one in a couple weeks, mostly because we haven't done anything. So I still haven't really done much,

but I have some exciting things coming up that I can talk about. So why don't you start us off,

Lauren, take it away with your life update. Yeah, I was kind of like searching for things to

talk about in today's life update. I have a few, a few updates. My first is just that school is

ramping up. I think this is like the fourth week this week. Yeah. So I think so. We're really getting

into the school year. I'm starting to go to bed late again. Last night I think I went to bed at like

2.30 because I was writing an essay.

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