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I still need to find a good straw option. Oh, maybe someone listening to the show can recommend a good straw option for me.

That's biodegradable, but

it doesn't disintegrate in your mouth is you drinking. You know, sometimes I've had those ones. They're like I think maybe made out of rice.

Is it rice? They're hard. They're harder. I think or pasta. Have you ever wanted like a noodle? Yeah, those are cool. We have those. We had those in Tampa right when we were shooting. Yeah. Yeah.

At the coffee shop. That's right. We should start by saying it's not your birthday yet, but we're recording this a little bit before your birthday.

But this episode is dropping on your birthday. So if you're listening to this right now. Today's Justin's birthday. He is 45 years old. He's on.

He's beginning the back half of his 40s. Happy is celebrating. He's like, yeah, whoa, whoa.

Yes, I'm excited to be 40. Is that bad luck then to like be celebrating something that in a time that hasn't happened?

I don't think so. People have birthday parties before their actual day. I think that's pretty common. But but happy birthday. Thank you. Let me be the first one to wish you happy birthday. Oh, yeah, officially.

But what is on your short list? Yes. So I would like to talk about my birthday and how it's connected to an actor I greatly admire. And I want to talk about his movies, Michael J. Fox. I want to talk about his new movie.

Well, consider me sufficiently teased by that. And what I would like to talk about very briefly is Trader Joe's. And I've got a little story about Trader Joe's and something that has been weighing on me a little bit about my experience at Trader Joe's. So let's get into the show. What do you say?

I'm excited. So excited. I love your Trader Joe's story. Your grocery you out in the world interacting with people. Okay, it feels how little I do in my life is that like all my stories come from grocery stores. How do you think I feel? I was talking about like contemplating buying a cat dad tote bag. That was one of my stories.

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream. You're listening to life is shorter. We're your host Justin and Christian long.

So it is my birthday, as you mentioned, and which is always a day of, you know, I mixed feelings, always, especially the older I get. But when I was younger, I still had a sense of I don't know if other kids were like this, but I had a real awareness of time moving on and my mortality and things changing and a good example. I was thinking of that was when I lost when I would lose a tooth.

One to thin particular I forget how old I think I was five or no, no, I think I was eight. Is that too old to be losing a tooth eight doesn't seem old. You were a late bloomer. I still have a few baby teeth. Yeah, I lost it and I fell out and I was saddened by it. I thought, oh, this is a real signifier of change. My body's changing. And so I wanted to keep it. I wanted to keep it as a memento to hold on to my youth and time. And so I wrote.

So I wrote a little piece of paper. I dear to the fair. You know, I wrote the to the very dear to the very I would like very much to keep my tooth, but please leave the cash. I think I was that like blatant about it. And the tooth fairy acquiesced. It was very kind of them. And so I think I think I think we got like how much five dollars back then five dollars.

Oh, was that too much you run a lemonade stand and that fair for a kid for a tooth. I think it was one of my later teeth. I think it was I remember being less than that. I think a single dollar bill maybe, maybe a dollar or mom was now kids are probably getting like hundred dollar bill. Yeah, well, there's how much these in those lemonade kids get the five dollar lemonade kids. They probably get.

They get like a Tesla under their pillow. I put it in my little I had of course scrapbook and in the scrapbook I wrote you know I just turned eight. And in a couple weeks or I think was the day I lost my tooth. I think it was June 26. It was Michael J Fox's birthday. I wrote that and Michael J Fox turned this age.

Even at that age, I had such a I felt such a connection to him when I'd have a birthday. I think, oh, his is only a couple weeks later and I just thought there was something about him. I watched family ties. I watched all of his movies.

And I just felt so connected to him. I just thought he was the coolest the best. And it was one of the he is his performances are one of the reasons a big reason why I wanted to become an actor. I just thought I want to do what he does. You know, I want to try to do that. And you know, it's still in my in my normal

normal every day just stimulating. I he that's how influential he was in my life. And so I was so excited to learn of a new Michael J Fox movie. It's out. You can all watch it. It's on Apple TV. It's called still. And it is one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. I mean, it's it's like a real portrait of courage. And I was thinking when I was a kid, I looked up to him because of his roles and because of how he was.

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