Do you like your voice?

I hate it.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Got up.

Good morning to you wherever you are because it is Fire Somewhere.

For May 10th, 1998.

My name is Bernie Byrd.

Sitting right over there. She doesn't know if it's March or May.

It's Ashley.

How you doing?

Ash, I could be anytime.

Any time at all.

So this is follow-up Friday.

And yesterday on the podcast, when I did our completely professional intro, I said March 9th instead of May 9th, which threw people off because they were relying on me to convey accurate information in our place on the timeline.

And the funny thing about that was I said March night I knew something was wrong with the date but my

brain kept correcting it this is why as a writer you can't I can't at least edit my own stuff

because when I see errors like leaving out a word or something like that my brain knows what

it's reading and fills it in and corrects it for me yeah it's tough makes it really hard for me

to edit my own stuff uh and so I was listening to it. I was like, no, I definitely said March 9th. Yesterday. So apologies if I set everyone back in time two months. Sorry about that. Or congratulate. I'm sorry that happened to you or congratulations. Yeah, hopefully you you guys won that billion dollar lottery with my mistake. Cut me in on that, would you? Yeah, today is May 10th.

It is, she has passed away, but today is my mother's birthday. Happy birthday to Mama's

Let me think about this. 30, 38. She's born in 1938. Sounds strange. My parents had me late.

So when I talk about my parents' birth years and especially my grandmother's birth year,

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