While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Fal Lou fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty for Lou is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones. She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu.

Get it, the Bird Show. Is now a good time to address the sales department on that Ginkobeloba

endorsement. All right Amber producer, it has been said that the first of any anniversary, when somebody

passes away are always the toughest, and you have just crossed one of those milestones.

Yes I did. I thought that Thanksgiving was going to be hard. It was. I thought

Christmas was going to be hard. It was but Mother's Day, the day that's about the best moms ever, like it was really tough.

But I was able to get through it.

This is going to sound kind of weird.

The way I got through it, and for those of you who aren't aware,

my mother passed away October 25th of 2023 of last year.

So the way I got through it was Shonda Rhymes.

Shonda Rhymes saved me on Mother's Day.

The way that she writes for her characters, it feels like those stories started from something.

I don't think she just pulled all of these experiences out of her butt, I mean probably some of them, but a lot of them, you can kind of feel connected to those characters and a lot of the life issues that you go through or people that you know go through,

it's on Gray's anatomy. I was an author, you know?

So it's like, it's almost therapeutic for me

to watch her shows and I just spent the entire day

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