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This little host of yours has a little birthday coming up. Not a little birthday.

Yeah, it's a big one. Quite a big one. 45, which sounds

sometimes I feel like a younger version of myself hearing me say that and it freaks me out.

You're going to be on the back end of your 40s. That's not crazy.

Got the back end. I guess this is the time where I have to start getting accustomed to,

I have to psychologically adjust to the idea of being 50. I have to start.

Our friend James Duffy, the listener of the show, does a really smart thing where when it's your

birthday, let's say you're turning 41, he'll be like, you're basically 50.

Which sounds kind of mean, but it like mentally prepares you for the number, I think. It's a good

strategy. It is. And he was a couple years older than me. I can picture him listening to this

and me like, one and a half. Yeah, but yeah, half way to 50. I always also like to do the if I,

if this were half my life for a while, it was like, oh, this is a quarter of my life. And it was

like, this is a third of my life. And now you got to do half your life. So half of this would be

Hey, to throw water on this little theory of yours. But you'd be at this point,

be kind of lucky. I know. 45 half your life. Yeah, if this were half. Yes, 45. And I think Kate has

something. I know she has something special playing. She thought I caught wind of it the other day.

I was she was like, she keeps asking me if I know what it is. And she found out about the hot

air balloon. She's very excited. Oh, and then I said, that's a, it's funny. I did a joke like that

today. I was like, no, but I don't know that it's, it's a week at a fantasy football camp where you

get to play with all the, like legends, football legends. And she was like, no, she had this look

at her face. I was like, Oh, God forbid, that's what it is. It's something like that. I just guessed it.

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