Happy birthday!

Hey!

We're recording the podcast.

Got up!

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

Morning, September!

For May 2nd, 2025.

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there.

It's the birthday girl herself, my beautiful wife, Ashley.

Say hi to Ashley, everybody.

Come jump with a gun a little bit.

But you know what?

We're not doing a podcast on my birthday.

So today is what you get?

Well, we almost didn't do today's podcast. Get to that in a second. We were going to have a day off today. And I was going to use, you know, a lot of reasons. There's a good reason for that. But then also we're going to be going on the road. as soon as we post this, we're going to be going on the road

and having a day for your birthday, which is tomorrow,

but we don't get the weekends off.

We get the weekends off. The weekends we work the most. Yeah, we got to take our time. We can get it. And then we're, you know, listen, birthdays are super important. I adore you. You are the light of my life, even though you make purchasing decisions without consent with the rest of the group. You're welcome. Take it easy. We'll talk about that in a second, too. That's why, for your birthday, I'm taking you to a Marvel movie and Costco. The light of my life. You know exactly what I want. How did we get here? How did we get here? Look, it's important. Tomorrow is the day the Thunderbolts asterisk comes out. And so it's important to go to go see it. The reviews are good. We're not, hopefully we won't get any spoilers. You know, we'll get there. We'll get in. We'll get out. We'll go, wow, that was a lot of post-credit scenes. And then we'll be happy and we'll go on with our day. We'll explore Costco. That was a fun thing we did in the U.S. We went and got you a Costco card. Yes, we went and got my Costco card. And then we found out, well, we found out a while ago that there is a Costco here in Scotland, but I couldn't get the Costco card here, so I had to get it in the U.S.

And now we can go to Costco. there is a Costco here in Scotland, but I couldn't get the Costco card here,

so I had to get it in the U.S. And now we can go to Costco. But we took the kids to Costco, which may have been a mistake. But it was pretty incredible. We walk in the doors, and the first thing Finn says is, can we have that pool? Can we get a pool? Yeah. Because he saw some kind of pool display. Hanging from the ceiling.

That's how ridiculous Costco is.

So I'm excited to see what Scottish Costco has to offer.

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