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wherever you get your podcast. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. This is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco so, and

talk easy. I'm San Francisco and thank you for being here. This week on the podcast is it's my mom.

There's there's no way of easily introducing your mother and I'm not going to give too long-winded of an intro here.

But we were trying to figure out how to make episode 50 special and, and a little bit strange.

And this is kind of what we landed on.

We also put it out to people on social media, but it was also something we had planned to do for a while.

We've had a wide variety of folks on the podcast,

but no one that I was really deeply close friends with prior to having them on and

instead of just having a friend on I thought well why not just have my mom on

She's at an interesting point in her life right now.

She had surgery a month ago on her eyes and there was a potential reality where one of her eyes would not work anymore. I don't know if she hates

and I'm saying this publicly, but it's okay and that's gotten better and she's getting remarried

in May and it seemed appropriate that I present this

person to you all who made me who I am and there's a lot of embarrassment and apprehension I have

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