45 & Too Old for This Shit

It’s my 45th birthday, so naturally Chris starts the episode by thinking I’m 46. Off to an excellent start.

To celebrate, we attempt 45 questions for 45 years—and, shockingly, do not make it through 45. We talk about what we’re too old to tolerate, the lives we thought we’d have, how our definitions of success have changed, what we’re still figuring out, and what we’re most proud to have built.

We also finally reveal the results of your listener polls, establish that Chris may someday be arrested over moldy strawberries, and confirm that 75% of you think I need to get over myself and buy AirPods.

Then, Ache & Relief moves to its new home at the end of the show. We talk about Perez Hilton, the internet’s reaction to someone in crisis, and why a person’s worst behavior doesn’t mean they deserve cruelty in their darkest moment.

And my birthday relief is a simple one: being thought of.

Forty-five years down. Still learning. Still Breathing. Still evolving. Still dysfunctional. And increasingly too old for everyone’s shit.

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