Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast hears the thing. I spoke with more actors, musicians,

policymakers, and so many other fascinating people like actress and director Cheryl Hines.

They were looking for an unknown actress.

To play Larry David's wife, I said, well, how old is that guy? Isn't he old?

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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. Chuck's on a roll. Let's get it up. Jerry's here too. Let's go. It's short stuff.

Speaking of Jerry, does this not start with a sign fell, D'A'Ref?

Yeah, the boyfriend episode, part one. I don't remember that one. Walk me through it. I don't remember

the episode either, but I definitely remember this part. So they're talking about meeting new friends

in your thirties and how it's just basically impossible to do that. I think Jerry says, whatever

group you've got is the one you're going with. You're not interviewing. You're not looking at any new

people. Not interested in seeing any applications. And it's such a truism. Like as you get older,

the chances of you making new friends or especially adding to your group, especially pre-social media

was really low. The chances were relatively low, especially compared to how you were as a kid.

And it's not just necessarily because you lose interest in it. You potentially max out your

friends by a certain age, say your thirties. And the idea that we can even max out the number of

friends we have suggests that there's like some sort of cognitive load that having friends puts

on us and that we can only do so much. So we are limited to a certain amount of friends.

Well, my friend, I would agree that in most cases that is true, but it's funny that I

fly in the face of this because I have met a lot of friends since my thirties and in my forties even.

But a lot of it is because of this job. And you know me, I'm kind of a friend collector anyway.

Sure.

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