That is the sound of the weekender coming early, Nick.

It's always the weekend somewhere in the world, right?

It's always the weekend somewhere.

Hey everybody, I'm Jared Yates Exx. I'm here at Nick Houseman.

You might notice that you are getting the

weekend or a day early to go ahead and let you know what's going on. I am celebrating my 40th birthday

today as you're hearing this. Yes, happy birthday. It's a big day. It's a big weird day. So we're recording this on Wednesday, which means that you are now going to be listening to this on Thursday.

If for whatever reason you prefer it on Friday, listen to it on Friday.

Yeah.

It's not going to hurt anybody.

I can remember my 40th.

Would you do?

I actually had a kind of a big party and we had a Beatles impersonation band play.

And then I got to actually get up there and play the solo from Let It Be.

It was very exciting.

That's kind of epic.

That's kind of amazing.

I'm not doing that. Oh, well, you know, yeah. We all dressed up like the 60s. And that was also interesting because I said, let's dress up like, I think I was, oh, you know what, I don't think I was specific. So when I said 60s, we got the whole range from like early 60s until, you know, through the counterculture stuff it was pretty pretty

interesting wow I'm not doing that but um wow so we we're recording this early

and and we're gonna have a conversation later we actually we started getting ready

to record this and we realized off mic off the recording that Nick and I have a very, very serious difference

in terms of what we prefer in terms of cake.

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