You're joking, right?

Well, I'm trying to be hopeful.

I'm trying to be optimistic about that.

Well, I guess you're too young to be a little pessimistic like me.

The fucking things I see at the people are stupid.

Hey, Brian.

Hi, in a while since we've seen each other.

Yeah. In person. We've spoken. been a while since we've seen each other. Yeah.

In person.

We've spoken. Yes, of course we speak. Well, I'm just saying, because people are like, but you put it out an episode last week. I thought how our people sound? No, not our people. How you doing, Brian? Good. How are you? I'm a little tired, but just giving the caveat to the people. if I don't have my usual.

Well, it's late.

It's late.

And I was up to like 4 a.m.

What's fervor? Um, like passion. Energy. And you had a wedding? I was at a good friend's

wedding last night. Due to you. Yes. The, the bride and groom, the, and I'm not like, this isn't to make it about me, but literally the only reason they met is because of me. And that my birthday party. Has been, I think it's very nice. If it wasn't, I mean, I got, like, if it wasn't for me, they wouldn't have met. So it's so weird than being there at their wedding. And I was friends with each

of them independently. They didn't know each other. They met. I think it's very nice. And I was

roommates with his mom. And mom went to college with his dad. Isn't that funny? It's just fucking weird.

You know, it's also funny. Like I was telling telling, like, Uncle Brent's story, like, from Skidmore, how I was, went to one year there, and then I get that stupid off-campus dorm. Remember that story? I tell you a story. Yes. But my point is, if I didn't get that off-campus dorm, I would say, Skidmore, and we wouldn't be here today. It's very weird on a dime.

Yeah. I mean, many things. The fact that they met was because my friend Garrett decided to come. We left dinner or we went to the bar that we were planning here to go to. Wait, if COVID didn't happen. Absolutely. None of us would have been here. I wouldn't have met Hana. Right. But it's like we decided to go to this bar and half of the group stayed back because they wanted to get ice cream before they went to the bar. This was a while ago. And then the people who stayed back didn't get into the bar because it was like too crowded by that point. So Garrett and I made it into the bar because we went ahead and then she was there. And I was like, oh, it's like, and then they met. If he decided, if he wanted ice cream for that two, those two minutes, which very well could have happened. They wouldn't have met. And then that wedding wouldn't have happened and that their children wouldn't. Like, it's so weird. It is weird how things happen that's life though and then even

with hana like the i mean we've you know told this story so many times but also like the day that i

handed my keys over and then you know went on a date with hana and then i didn't i wanted to go on

another date with her the next night but i didn't have a place to stay anymore. So I crashed on Garrett, the guy who just got married, I crashed on his couch because I was like, hey, I want, you know, I need a place to stay. Right. Just funny. It's weird. So today I was visiting a friend in the hospital over in west of the Cleveland Clinic. And for some reason, Uncle Brandon, we went together and we were just talking in the car.

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