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One on today's Scott Mills Daily Podcasts, I can shave your age. More nostalgia wrapped up in another

ho-ho game. And we've got him, blinking-guy meme, is on our show.

One! One! One! One! One of my friends has just shaved three years off his age on Grindr,

on his profile because he says if Adele can do it, then so can he. She's on Grindr. No,

what he's saying is Adele, her new album, is called 30, but she is in fact 33.

Ah! So three years have been shaved. There's a lot online about why it's called 30. I think

she wrote it when she was that age. And obviously we've had a pandemic, so this album was supposed

to be out a while back, but she is actually three years older than the album would suggest.

But there's good reasons why, isn't it? But you are right, because if I just suddenly go,

I'm actually three years younger than I am, but that's because we had a pandemic, and I'm not

really counting that year, and you know what I mean. Well, people would go, well that's ridiculous.

Yeah, but me and you have similar birth dates, right? We now have had two birth days in a pandemic,

where we've not actually been allowed to do anything, because around the time of when our

birth day is, we were, I think, locked down both times. Yeah. So I'm all up for taking two off,

because I don't feel that that's fair. But with Adele, no one's question, I'm sure we're going to

get messages now from people going, well, it's right that she does it because, but the reasons are,

right, that is a pandemic. So I'm actually the same age as Adele, which worries me almost daily,

considering how much she's achieved and how little I have. Well, yes. You know what I mean, it's

hard not to compare and contrast. Yeah, I saw it at the weekend, 130 million, it looks like

130 million what? Personal fortune. Is it? It is that much, I believe, yes. Right. So

different lives, different lives, but my point is, if I just go, right, I'm going to show three

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