Good morning, good morning everybody. Happy Wednesday, May the 31st. How are you doing?

How was that coffee tasting on this episode 299 episode 299 folks and also Mama Wands birthday.

Did we ever find out Mama Wands first name at least? No. Do we know your first name Mama Wands?

Happy birthday Mama Wands. One of the OG members of Substack and even before that,

Mama Wands time stamp in our video is the old podcast vids. She's been around for a while. So

he would shout out to Mama Wands. Happy birthday. I hope you're going to the casino later.

Hope you're getting a steak. Hopefully it's a good day. All right. We got some chaos around the

studio this morning, Dave. The hell's wrong with you this morning. Dude, I,

bubble guts ripping came in like

650 said to get everything ripping like ASAP right when I sat down, you know. I know I was about to call you.

We're two minutes before about to film. There's no, the cameras aren't on.

It's unreal. Mergencies man. A bird sees unreal. All right.

What the hell is this photo here? Is this from Elsa making photos? Unreal.

Get over the Substack check, folks. Lots of, lots of memes there.

Zed me that substack.com. Especially for episode 300, you know, tomorrow. We got to get there.

But first before you go and do any of that, we have to get to today's show. Starting with our national

holidays. Today is world parrot day. Do you know they can live up to like 100? What? Yeah. Hold on a sec.

How long can parrots live? That's just in a way. Yeah, like the African gray parrot.

I was thinking about getting one. I mean, you can grow old with the thing. Well, yeah, it says 50,

60. So I'm sure in rare cases, they could do 100.

Cockatoo's. Cockapose. 40 to 60 years old. With the African gray parrot.

I almost said the other word, but African gray parrot is.

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