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With the Galaxy Watch 7 or the Galaxy Ring and the Samsung Health app. How's it going, man?
I mean, I'm all right, but you're finishing, is this lunch? Granola bar, which technically, I guess, is lunch right now. Yeah, I've been tracking you across the office. I am always rushing around from thing to thing. You seem haggard, especially lately. It's been a stretch, dude. You are trying to be kind to yourself by eating a kind bar. Yeah. A real luxury.
Oh, it's good. It's good. Well, dude, question.
Yeah.
Have you ever done something, and this will go somewhere. Have you ever done something to someone where you ask them to, you know, like a favor for you? They do it and only then afterwards do you realize that, oh man, you just asked them to do like something absolutely wretched.
Yes. First time I moved out of my parents' apartment, asked a friend. Can you help me move, having never done it myself?
And moving in New York is basically like, would you like to... Would you like to be basically stuck in a set of stairs trying to maneuver a couch at like a 64 degree angle?
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