Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waldman.

What's up, St.S. Nation, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor.

It is the podcast that promises to bring you the very best guests in all of true crime.

It is not a tagline.

It is our reality here.

And before we get going with anything at all, it is a historic day.

Today is the COE's birthday, February 19th.

I'll tell you what year she was born, but she's a lot younger than I am, which bothers me.

But it's kind of a good thing.

And so, uh, happy birthday to the COE, otherwise known as bugs, otherwise known as Ileana,

otherwise known as mom. Uh, otherwise known as mom.

We were up bright and early and had the wonderful idea of playing Happy Birthday on YouTube.

I realize that YouTube has absolutely everything in the world.

I'm just figuring this out now in 2025, but I proceeded to play Happy Birthday

in about 17 different languages as she was asleep and wanted to kill me. And the kids

were all singing it along with me in different languages. We didn't even know what some of the

languages were. But even in the Nepali language, I played happy birthday.

And I don't know why, but I did.

And like I said, she wanted to kill me.

But happy birthday.

And we are going to celebrate later today.

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