Hi, awesome. So welcome back to sort of awesome. It is Wednesday. We've got some mid-week

awesome for you on your host, Meg Teats. I'm here with my husband, Kyle. Hi, Kyle.

Hello, and we're both here as though talking through diapers. That's probably what it sounds like.

Yes, that's a good way to put it. I don't know if it's the sickness or if it's allergies,

it's been raining here and I'm sure mold is off the charts. Yeah. I have been fighting some

congestion. Both of us. Yeah. Sounding a little off, but that's not going to dampen the

awesome. I'll tell you what. Look, the people need the things to celebrate and they need to know the

news. That's right. And it's not just any news. You can get any news on any news channel. Kyle,

our lead researcher, I'm promoting you. You know, you've been like assistant to the regional researcher

for a while. Yeah. But you've been, you've really, you've proved yourself. That's good.

Because I've never met that doucheur. I'm wondering whose job I've been doing.

I'm titling you now. I might even put you on the payroll. I'm just going to see.

Pay raise or nothing. But seriously, you've done some great research on finding the interesting,

sometimes awesome, sometimes completely wackadoodle news stories that you probably missed.

We've got them for you. But first, like you said, we do like to point out that every single day

when you wake up in the morning, there is something awesome that you can celebrate.

We've got it all covered for you for the week ahead. In fact, today, May 19th happens to be

the birthday of Buddha. Did you know this? I did. There's an actual birthday celebration.

I did not know that. Well, it is celebrated in most of East Asia. It is the birthday of the founder

of Buddhism, according to Buddhist tradition, and also modern academic consensus.

Guatama Buddha was born in the year 563 BC. Somewhere in that range, 563 to 483 somewhere in

there. It's pretty broad range. It's a broad range, but that was like a long time ago. The record

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