Can you hear me now.

Good.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

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

Morning Somewhere!

For July 8th, 2025.

My name is Bernie Burns sitting right over there so far. Ashley Burns. Say hi to Ashley

everybody. Good morning wherever you are. Feels good. I can actually hear my own voice again.

So I'm like super excited by it. Thank you to everyone who gave us such a constructive feedback about the audio quality of the podcast yesterday. We're back to our normal setup. So you suffered through it. We all made it through it together. And now it's a badge of honor that we can carry with us for the rest of our days. How do we feel about that, Ashley? Well, look, it's a little bit like, you know, sometimes you travel and you don't have the things quite the way you like them. You know, you don't have like your favorite pillow or like it's too mushy or not mushy enough. And you don't have like the blanket, just quite the way you like it. But you get through it because you know what? You're traveling and you've got stuff to do. That was the podcast. I will say that we did have this philosophy, right? Of, you know, if we, we don't want to have too many people on the podcast because we're not always going to be able to recreate the energy of having like three or four people on. I don't like personally doing remote stuff because I don't like the energy of it. And it was funny because it's literally the moment I said where this is a remote version of the podcast,

we're recording from different locations, immediately the floodgates open and people were like,

okay, great, now put this person on.

Well, and that that, I should, we should clarify as well that that experiment is not necessarily

for this show in particular,

but just in general as we look at projects and what we can and can't do.

Yeah, and we have recorded remote before.

You know, we're doing it the way we're doing it now, actually.

This is remote as well, not to color your opinion of this particular episode.

But yeah, we've done it before.

But enough about the technical details of the Morning Somewhere podcast, Ashley.

I would like to share a personal story that happened not that long ago.

I guess it was just a few hours ago.

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