Phalicitations, it is me Felicia Day and this is my podcast welcome you guys.

It is December 20th 2019 and this may very well be the last recording of 2019.

Now, I would like to tell you a little story

about why I thought this year was going to be my year.

19 has been my lucky number since I was about six years old.

I only went to one year of school,

and I remember very distinctly winning something

with the number 19.

I don't remember what I won, honestly I just remember that was like the most exciting thing in my life was to win something

So then 19 really became my thing

About six seven years later when I was about 12 or 13 years old, I went to Miami with my parents.

My dad was doing like a rotation there to learn how to do trauma surgery.

He was in the military and the military trained him to be a doctor and he paid back a service in kind with his work. And so he was there for six months. We stayed in Mississippi but we went and visited him.

And my dad gave me $1 at the mall to buy a lotto ticket if I wanted,

because they had just started the lottery in Florida.

It was the first time, and it was very exotic. And then he gave a

dollar to my brother. And my brother decided to keep his dollar because he's

a really, he's always to this day very cheap. And I decided to buy a quick pick three lotto ticket. I picked

3 1-9 which happened to also be the day March 19th but I didn't even think about that it was just 19 was my

lucky number and I like the number 3-2 so I picked 3-19 I won $500. So we

use that $500 to go on vacation for really the only time in my whole childhood.

We went to Key West and I remember I bought a Greenpeace shirt that I was so proud of myself because

...