Hi Sasha I've I've been I've been told by our producer we should say our names and I've been actually avoiding saying your name for the last few weeks. I've a secret

So I'll tell you why. Well, I realized with a shock and a horror that I'm kind of mispronouncing it.

Because I say Sasha. Well, I just realized everybody, American says Sasha Sasha as if it's an oh. So Lisa says hi

Sasha everybody says Sasha and I say Sasha. I just realize I'm mispronouncing her name because actually because I remember it was a few weeks ago you

called you said your name and I went oh is that how you say it? It's Sasha, not Sasha.

So yeah, I've been avoiding it.

So this is my little convention.

Hey, podcast co-host, how are you?

Well, I will reassure you that actually you can pronounce my name that way

and as a matter of fact I'm thinking my father pronounces my name Sasha and my mom

pronounces it more like Sasha and then some people say Sasha like an oish sound.

Oh, yeah.

It's fine.

And if we have, well, first of all, I mean, most listeners will now know,

I am not Russian, but my name is Russian.

That's right.

So if we have any Russian or Eastern European listeners who can correct us,

I believe the pronunciation in that part of the world is Sasha.

My right. Sasha. Sasha. I way. Sasha.

Sasha.

I think so.

Yeah.

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