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When you're a kid, you can't choose certain things like your last name. You can't choose. You can't choose what you look like.

You can't choose genetics. You can't choose your last name. That's a very accurate statement.

Actually, sorry, it's not very accurate. It's just accurate. Yeah, it can't be very accurate. That's true. There aren't degrees of accuracy.

My association with my last name long is a very complicated one. We have a name that is also used in the world.

It's a very common name. It's a descriptive name, obviously. It's an adjective.

So I've always been aware of hearing that in the world and people make puns and people make jokes about it like,

like, oh, Life is Short, with Justin Long. But it's repaid off. It allowed you to have a good pun for your podcast 40 plus years into the future.

That's true, which is about to start right now. What's actually started? I can't wait. Okay, well, let's do it then.

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. Oh, dude, you're listening to Life is Short. I am your host Justin Long.

Life could be a dream sweetheart. Dude, dude, dude, dude, Shabu.

It is co-hosted and produced by you. Christian Long. Why did I stumble on your name?

I used to tell people that my uncle was how he long when I was a kid. The great football player.

Yes.

Now great commentator. Not only great football player, but extraordinarily handsome football player.

The kids have a hard time believing it.

Well, maybe when I was really young, they believed it. But then I reached a certain age where it's like maybe third grade, fourth grade where people are like,

most of it adopted. That guy has like a beautiful jawline. There's no way you're related to him.

Doesn't he now also have like an equally impressive, well, not a very athletic son? Chris Long.

Chris Long. That's his son. Yeah. Chris Long is how he long son. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that.

There's Chris Long and for the Eagles, and there's another long. He has two sons. Matt Long. There's another, not I don't think so. There's another NFL player.

But yeah, you're right. When we were kids, like I would always take note of how we long, I felt like a special connection to him because of our name, how we long.

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