Welcome to The Write Collab Podcast with host Mary and co-host Jenny-coming to you straight from the sauna for a little detox, a little retox, and a lot of questionable conversation.

In our first official episode, we cover everything from neighborhood floodlights and parenting pranks to stoplight nose-pickers who clearly forgot windows work both ways. Then we switch gears and head into the real reason this podcast exists: helping Mary finish her novel, Blanket Truth.

This week, Mary reads the prologue, introduces eight-year-old Emmy, and brings Jenny into the conversation about what’s working, what isn’t, and where the story should go next. Then we wrap things up with Ask Harry, our Magic 8-Ball with an obviously very reliable connection to Harry Styles.

• Sauna Sessions & Confessions: Catching up on a busy week, gearing up for New York City, and dealing with a neighbor whose blinding floodlights are driving nocturnal animals crazy.
• Wild Listener Story: A nurse shares an unbelievable story about looking up a patient's past.
• Parenting Pranks & Yahtzee: How a game of Yahtzee turned into a full-scale prank call operation, plus flashback stories of scaring the kids into going to bed on Christmas Eve.
• Schoolyard Rumors: What happens when your kid tells classmates he has a prosthetic leg and was an orphan.
• Phone Upgrade Nightmares: Spending hours on customer support calls, dropped service, and getting stuck in SOS mode right before a big trip.
• Driving Pet Peeves: People digging for gold at stoplights thinking front windows are tinted, and pedestrians stepping right into traffic outside crosswalks.
• The Writer's Room: Reading and dissecting the prologue of Mary's unpublished novel, Blanket Truth, about eight-year-old Emmy getting dropped off in 1999.
• Ask Harry Segment: Asking our trusty Harry Styles Magic 8-Ball about the Seahawks' Super Bowl chances, math class grades, and our upcoming trip to Madison Square Garden.

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Credits: Audio production and engineering by Wayfare Recording Co.

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