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Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365. Learn more at Microsoft.com slash M365 co-pilot. Okay, let's go Welcome to part of my take presented by Draft Kings. The crown is yours today is friday January 30th happy birthday big cat. Oh, thank you. Happy birthday to you tomorrow. Yeah, I appreciate it. 41 really doesn't mean shit. Mm-hmm. I was thinking about dropping a 40 like 41 lessons of my well, Zach did you just look back and oh no the clock's actually's actually artwork. A 41 tweet thread. Yeah, I love 41 lessons I learned throughout life. I love when people do that and they're all the same thing, just rephrased. Yeah. They're like, your most important asset is time. Wake up early. Yeah. Go to bed early. Drink water. Practice mindfulness. Yeah fried food, more protein. And there's also, there's like contradictory ones too. It's like, fuck being normal, be yourself. And then it's like, it learned to enjoy the mundane normal things in life. Stop and smell the way. Yeah. So yeah, 41, I mean, you're, this is the one day that we're taping this that I'm, uh, you're

on. I'm, I'm on 41. You're yet to be 41. Mm-hmm. You're going to be playing spyglass. That's pretty sick. Yeah, this can be a lot of fun. Very, very, very, thank you, Hank, for that birthday present. Yeah, that's huge. That's huge. A problem. Birthday week. Birthday week kind of uh... used to be that we would do it during super week but now that i feel i feel like we haven't had that in a while

yeah birthday week also just getting older.

It's soft.

Getting older is not great.

There's nothing good about turning. I guess you get wiser. The nice thing about getting older though is you do start to care less about stuff. Oh. Like all the small stuff. I'm in the most hardcore, I don't care phase of my life. that it's awesome.

Yeah, I think turning 41, I finally,

except I might be done growing.

Oh, which that's the big change this year.

I am not, I am not because we have some diet problems in the booth that we need. We're looking for an extension granted. Thank you extension granted. We're four weeks into texting each other our updates on Wednesday and this Wednesday, I texted my update and I said,

I think it's time we start talking about an extension. Yeah. Max immediately said, I agree. So yeah, 41. Hank, you want to make fun of us for being old? No. Good. It means I'm old. You're not that old. How you feeling, Hank? I always just got the thing that always bugs me out is that And when we first met, I'm older than you are.

Yeah, that is crazy. about super. I always just got the thing that always just bugs me out is that when we first met, I'm

older than you were. Yeah, that is crazy. And at the time, you seem so old and- But that makes sense. We met 15 years ago. I know, it's just crazy. Yeah. And when we started the pod, you're the same age as we were then. That's crazy. No, he's actually older. Yeah. He's 31.

Yeah, he's older.

That's insane.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

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