This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

I'm gonna cut our little small talk short today because we have a guest that will demand full attention.

He goes by none other than Mr. Gary V. Gary, welcome to the show, my friend.

Johnny Rich, thank you so much for having me. My son, Zander went four for four with three home runs in Little League and he wears number 16. Yes, that was a humble brag, but it only came in because you said episode 16.

I was trying to think should I say Vinny test of Erdi or should I give Zander a shout out?

And my intuition is, Zander will listen to this in 10 years and be happy with me.

Wow, the jet fan in you to even think Vinny test of Erdi, but I know that going with your son's careful. I'm a jet fan that thinks Brad Smith, that was for all the real jet fans out there.

I know who Brad Smith is by the way, and I'm a giant fan, but congrats to your son, man. I'm an incredible day at the plate. Huge.

And you just got, you just had another birthday pass, right?

I did. I, you know, I don't know when you guys are putting this out, but this last Saturday, November 14th, I turned 45. I decided the week heading into it that I was, that means I've just walked into the locker room.

You know, because I feel like something, you know, I've never thought about retiring in my life, retiring, quote unquote, and I won't.

But, you know, at some level, being realistic and non-delusional matters, and I'm like, you know, if I'm fortunate enough to have the level of health to make me go to 90 and actually go to 90 and, you know, I think everybody who listens to this show has the potential to know somebody who's still going at it at 88, 89, 90, 91.

I feel like if I get to that number, there's going to be such a level of gratitude. I'll probably take a step back, look around and really ask myself if I really got this last decade, because I project that our age group gets to 100, you know, like a little bit more common ish, though many won't unfortunately.

I just might want to do something weird as fuck, you know, I feel like I'm super in the zone of like whether it's an artist or an athlete or teacher or cop, like I really do what I was meant to do, like I re, I, because I've always done it, like lemonade stands, shoveling snow, like when there was room to pick and choose having fun, not at, you old, not at 17 for parties and shit.

No, no, eight, seven, six, when you don't even know the logic of why you choose to do a lemonade stand versus play baseball or, or right or why when it snows, do you literally your chemicals make you want to shovel snow hard labor work instead of having a snowball fight.

You know, I feel like I'm just very fortunate that I do what I was meant to do. So we're going to reel this in a bit because you and me together equal like the ultimate lack of attention to, I mean, what is it, the ultimate attention deficit yet hyper focus.

I want to stay on the first thing about your 40s, I want to live to 100 realistically, I don't know what that means, but that's just a dope number for me to target my whole life, right? I think that that's just, you know, it's funny.

I feel very similar and I feel like when you just said that I'm like I wonder if he also thinks like fuck you if I don't get to 85, I'd like to get to 100 and then you kind of like think about that shit.

Yeah, I'm not like I'm not a hypocontriac. However, I focus, I've started to think about my health more than ever because I'm like I want to do this forever. I want to go as long as I can and think about how bad the climate in our world is. So I am an eternal optimist in that way.

But I've always felt 43 so I haven't always felt but for the last three years, something came over me where it was like a certain level of comfort that I found within my own skin, where I felt like I was in my prime and I had never felt that way before so it was clear to me that I was in it where people younger than me looked to me in some ways that I had a certain experience and a certain resume to back it up and older people looked at me because I could still talk about the future right.

I could still have that same thing that you have as a kid when you're constantly just telling people what you're going to do.

And look, I think you and I didn't think we would look or act like this at 43 and 45 because when we were 16, there was nothing to look at.

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