You think that's air you're breathing now?

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up!

Good morning to you wherever you are because it is morning somewhere for June 26, 2024.

It's early.

My name is Bernie Burns.

Sitting right over there.

She lives rent-controlled in your head for only $413 a month.

Ash and Burns, I had ash, everybody.

Look, he's back, baby.

Plus 67 cents.

That's the 67 cents that really does it.

Yeah, I let my voice rest yesterday. Although I've got a little bit, I'm going to try to keep some gravel in it. I'm going to try to keep my deep voice if I can. Yeah, you know, whenever I get sick and I lose my voice and it gets just that sort of like gravel behind it, and then I start to get better, I'm like, oh no, but the voice, but the voice. My ambition in life is to sound like the diplomat lady in expanse. Listen, if I'm, really her? Are you kidding? She sounds awesome. Isn't she like, I've only seen a few episodes. It's one of those shows I've started like five times. It's my mass effect of TV shows. I keep starting it.

Eventually I'm going to like, it's going to hook me and I'm going to be all in.

I kind of got to my hook point.

And then I got distracted again.

But I got further in this most recent attempt than I ever have before.

And I don't know yet what her deal is.

I can't tell if she's full villain. If she's, as the Y.A. readers like to say, morally gray. But we'll, you know, like willing to do, basically willing to, like, break a few eggs to make an omel. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but it seems like that character is like a character that exists. Maybe because I read a lot of sci-fi. it seems like it exists in sci-fi, a lot, the character who's willing to throw out all the rules to save humanity, you know, or to save the human race. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's a fairly common trope. If I sound a little bit shot out of a canon today, it's because I'm running on no sly.

And like five coffees.

Yeah, I've got a lot of coffee. How does it feel to be like this is, you know, fairly early in the morning and you're

already halfway through your day?

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