I don't understand. Guy seems cool to me and I don't see the lie
That is perhaps because you cannot do arithmetic.
If his "first year of eligibility" was in 1996, then 1996-18 is 1978.
If he was born in 1979, then this years he is 44, not 42.but that could be just one year off.
I fail to see why this is such a big deal.