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There's a little bit of a grueling thing.

It's funny, I never went out on A Jetski as a younger person.

And I was, I think, 47 when I started on this book.

It turns out, riding a Jetski is not a lot of fun.

If you're 47.

The Jetski-mounted hero of today's episode is 47-year-old Paul Greenberg.

Well, he's not 47 anymore. That was when he started the book.

So he's a few years past that now.

Like, as all, he's getting older.

And that actually is what led him to the topic of his book.

I did start this book, you know, in the throes of kind of a panic about middle age.

And when you Google all the things that are going wrong with you in middle age,

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