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Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

Let's hear it for our own lucky number, our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.

Mm-hmm.

Max lucky number Slevin Williams.

Yeah, yeah.

You're no Brown.

I am Ben Bowlin in these parts.

Yeah.

And our pal Max is very big into fantasy football, so much so that Max, you told Noel and yours truly that your group chat text messages would be blowing up.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, no, I always tell people like, hey, if you have something important to send me during the football season, do not text it to me, which is the inverse what most people say. But it's like, because if you send it to me text, it just gets into the giant pile of fantasy football stuff. By the way, my favorite number, 41. And that's where we're going with this.

This is an episode all about numbers.

So, Noel, Max, has a favorite lucky number, 41, or just a favorite number for his own personal mythology.

Do you find yourself possessing a personal favorite lucky or unlucky number?

Yeah, I do. And it's nonsense. I don't remember when I was a young lad writing bad poetry

that was very esoteric and pretentious. I don't know. I got focused on this number,

845 because I would do these sort of like cut-up experiments

where I would just like take words from random pages that I would find friends' houses.

And I think there was like a crossword or something where someone had written the number

and the margins.

And of course, you know, with what's the word, Bader Meinhoff situation, I just see the number

everywhere. And it's in allauf situation. I just see the number everywhere.

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