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

Morning, September!

For March 6, 2020, 5.

My name is...

Bernie Bird, I told you not that.

Working my timing now. All it took was a year and a half almost. Sitting right over there. She needs to hear it twice to believe it. It's Ashley Burns. Sad Ashley. Stone cold professional over there. One of my friends was telling me they were catching up on the podcast. If you fell behind on this podcast, would you catch up on it?

Look, it seems like a lot of people tend to do that, though, right? Like this is, and maybe it's just an artifact, a relic, a habit that people build up that you have to like catch up. You have to

binge through and catch up on the thing. I do the same thing. Sure. When I'm, like, there's something new out. And technically,

I could just skip ahead and I could watch the thing. But I'm like, no, now I have to go do my

homework and binge through the thing. This show, I don't think you need to binge through. Like,

we talk about something new every day. We don't have a lot of like carryover.

We'll occasionally reference earlier episodes.

But it's not like you have to have this entire backlog to understand what we're talking about, right?

I just can't imagine going back to Twitter and being like, oh man, I haven't been on here since like February of 2020.

Better start reading.

Scroll through your entire feed. But, you know, look, it's fine, though. I get it. Some people also will save the podcast to, like, binge at the end of the week or something like that. So they're listening to it for an hour and a half at a time or something like that. Everyone's got their own way of doing things, right? And we don't need to harsh their mellow. Oh, I'm sorry. We don't need to yuck their yum. We don't need to unfloat their boat. I am, uh, I'm dealing with a thing today where you know that feeling after you finish a book and there's a weird feeling of completion and accomplishment, but also kind of me. You've got book hangover. That's what book hangover is, babe.

But I have it at a huge multiplier because I finished a series, the dungeon crawler Carl

series, through seven books. So it was like this straight run. And now I'm just like, I literally

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