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We have shitloads of calls, so I am not going to go on and on at the top of the show.

We're just going to get right to it.

I recently met a guy maybe about a month ago, and he told me soon after we started

going out that he was 26 years old.

I don't know if he can see where he was going, but eventually I found out I looked at

his driver's license, and it says

that he was born in 1977, which makes him 31.

When I asked him about what this, well, yeah, you're 31 years old, why did you tell me?

He responded by saying, you know, oh, it's a lie. I have to go back to the DMV to change that, and I really

don't have time to do that, but it's totally not true. I'm 26. And I'm just, I'm not really sure

what this could mean because he's blatantly lying about this, and he's just not very open. He

doesn't want to face the facts, even when they

have solid proof. Should I trust this guy in the future since he would lie about something so

useless and so silly? We tried to call. We couldn't get you. So just briefly, quickly. It's a weird

lie and a pointless one and an easily disproved one.

If he had a better explanation for why he did it, you know, I'm embarrassed because I just turned 31 and I, you know, I look so much younger, I just tell people when 20, if he had some reasonable explanation as opposed to this wheezzling around about the DMV getting his age and his birthday around,

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