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Today is Monday, Cecil, and it is the 22nd of December. And I know the date easily because it is a day

after my son's birthday. Oh, happy birthday, and I bring that up because he just turned to 19.

And Cecil, you and I have been podcasting since that little bugger was like four or five months old.

Wow. So 19. We have been podcasting for coming up on 19 years. Wow. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, because he was a newborn when we started. He was brand new, tiny little dude. Yeah. Wow. When we started podcasting. So we've been doing it. We're coming up on our 20 year anniversary of podcasting, buddy. We still haven't gotten any better. We haven't even got canceled yet.

We haven't gotten any better. You would think after 20 years, we would get a little bit better. Maybe that's the golden. Maybe it's like, ah, boom, and we'll like hit that ceiling. We'll be like, holy shit, we're good at this now. We're finally log 10,000 hours or whatever it is. Would that be funny if that's the way it worked?

It's like you're terrible 9,999 hours.

And then like, fine. finally log 10,000 hours or whatever it is. Would that be funny if that's the way it worked?

It's like you're terrible 9,999 hours.

And then like 10,000th hour, it's like Malcolm Gladwell shows up to your house,

shakes your hand and you're good at it. He's got a wand and he just waves it over you.

Like a giant like publishers clearing house wand, you know, like it's giant and oversized.

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