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We both have children. How hard did you struggle to name your child?

Wow, I thought that was going to start in a completely different direction.

And we were going to talk about how hard it was for me to have children versus you to have children.

And I was going to say, it was probably harder for me, sure.

But anyway, setting that aside, it's early in the morning.

Setting that aside, you know, remarkably, we thought it was going to be a lot harder than it ended up being.

And part of that was because we lost my dad when I was pregnant and we decided to name him in part after my dad.

So that was, you know, that, that's sort of how the name came along. Um, but, you know,

that's really sweet. Yeah. Did you think about the economic consequences of the name, though?

I didn't.

So there's been a number of studies that suggest the name of a child may have impact on career path,

a choice in school, just overall success.

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