Hi everyone. Welcome or welcome back to call your friends. We're your friends, Maddie.

And today we are discussing my birthday. Well, today's not actually my birthday, but let's pretend it is.

I think when this episode comes out, it will be tomorrow. So if you're listening to this, yeah, tomorrow's my birthday. My birthday's on a

Saturday, which is fun. I feel like it's better than like a Monday birthday or something. But

today we want to continue the tradition and talk about things that I've learned this year, which, you know, I'm getting

a little bit old, so I feel like I can't do like 25 things I learned at 25 because I'm like

running out of things, unique things at least to talk about. And not even saying that these will all be

unique. I mean, I feel like we kind of have the same sort of lessons every single year that we

discuss in the podcast. But we're thinking of doing some, like a few lessons, maybe like five or so,

and then talking about them in more detail. So that's the plan for today. Maybe I can explain

a little bit about what I'm doing for my birthday because it's a fun, it's going to be a really fun time.

Yes, I was hoping you would.

All right.

So I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to do something in L.A.

Because I don't know.

I feel like birthdays are a little bit, well, a lot overhyped.

And sometimes that means that they end up being less fun than you think that they'd be because it's like a big day or like a big night.

Like you think it's going to be so fun.

But usually I think it's a little bit disappointing.

Do you agree?

Yeah, I think it really is about what your expectation going into it is.

Right.

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