I am once again asking for your financial support.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is...

Morning, September 13th, 2020.

My name is Bernie Burns. I was a little late on that one. Sitting right over there, she's neither early nor late. It's Ashley Burns. I arrive exactly when I intend. A co-host arrives exactly when she intends. How you doing, Ash? Yeah, happy Friday. Happy Friday the 13th. Look at you. Oh, it is Friday the 13th.

Yeah, it's spooky, everybody.

God, scary numbers, everybody. Scary numbers. What's the bad number in Asian culture? Is it seven? I don't know what it is. Or is that lucky? No, lucky's eight. Lucky's eight. I had a

I had for some reason

I asked one of my friends

who was a Chinese American

in the U.S.

I was looking in the early 90s. I was looking for auto insurance. And he said, oh, use my agent. And so I used her. I ended up being like one of the only primarily English speaking clients. She catered to the Asian immigrant population of Austin. And so whenever I called,

they were like, why are you calling our office? And one time I had to read to her, I had to read

my, you know, the code on the back, the three-digit code on the back of your card for making

a credit card payment. And mine was 888. Seriously, she was like, she went very lucky.

She just said that like with reverence, like very, very lucky.

She was trying to figure out a way if she could buy my credit card from me.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, it makes sense.

It was a big deal.

And I've seen this in distilleries.

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