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When I turned 16 I had a little party, a little birthday party. Sweet 16. Yeah. Oh, I made it was a big to-do.

I got a gift from a friend of mine. It was a French newspaper called Le Mans. He just gave me a

a newspaper, a French newspaper. I think because I had mentioned to him that I'd studied French

in seventh and eighth grade, maybe, and he just brought me without... It wasn't rapturing. He was just

like a newspaper. It's both weird and thoughtful. Yes, yes, which was rare. Yeah. But years later it ended

up paying off or having some value. When a couple days ago, Christian and I were watching

Jeopardy the Championships and one of the questions was, this is the newspaper in France.

The answer was, what is Le Mans? None of the three champions got it. I got it. I was so proud of

myself. You were sort of impressed. Do you think this story classifies as a humble brag or just a regular

brag? Let me make it humble by saying it was the only one that I got right that nobody got right.

So it was a humble brag. It was humble brag.

Humble brag.

You're listening. Life is short. I'm your humble braggy host, Justin Long.

This is my, I need no introduction. Oh, that's my braggy.

Brother, that's how you do it. That's a braggy self introduction.

Yeah, but you said it sarcastically so that's... That's true. Maybe that is a humble brag.

I do think humble brag. It's a brilliant concept. That's where Harris Whittles came up with that

turn. The late, late, late, late, late, late. Great Harris Whittles. One of the funniest

and I got, I used to love those. He had a Twitter account that was devoted to humble

brags. And I remember sometimes a friend's mind would be mentioned in them.

guests on the show. Humble bragged, were caught humble bragging. And of course I just did it.

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