Oh, good afternoon, good evening, good morning, good afternoon, good, I shouldn't, I want, I start with good afternoon, but I don't know what time you're listening to this. I mean it could be first thing in the morning. Oh my God, what a way to start the day. How do you start your day,

a cup of coffee, Hank Patterson's outdoor misadventures? Because it can only get better from there.

Or mid-afternoon, maybe you're driving, maybe you're sitting

around. I don't know when people listen to this. I assume people listen while they're

driving or they're on a walk because that's when I listen to a podcast. I go out on a walk most mornings. I drive a lot of times to places that are a distance and that's when I get a chance to listen to books or I listen to

podcasts and so I assume that you probably do the same so for me it would be good

morning would be you know a lot of times I'm listening to a

podcast in the morning or good afternoon if I'm driving or good evening I listened to a

podcast something about history now I'm not gonna remember what it was called the other day that was pretty good.

I was driving back and went to a birthday party.

A couple hours away up in the mountains, a friend of mine had a birthday party, threw

a big shindig, made a big deal out of their own birthday.

Right?

It's like, oh, it's my birthday.

So I thought I'd throw myself a giant party

and guilt everybody into coming.

It was a great time.

Had a fantastic time. A really fantastic. It was one of those

birthday parties. We all have friends that at one point after your I don't know what. Eight, I mean birthdays are like who gives you

shit, right? But no, that's not true. I mean you care about your birthday, some people for the rest of their lives and some people just sort of like it just becomes another day. I'm sort of a birthday became another day at about the time I was like 14. I'm like, okay, it's just, it's, it's, look, I'm 14. I was never big on birthday parties when I was growing up I must have been a just a

shitty kid just a shitty kid to be around because I wasn't big on birthday

parties and I also wasn't really big on trick or treating I I love Halloween. I have no problem with

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