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What do you have to compare that to? There were human resources people that in that place were under the umbrella of, I think, operations. You don't well no, you don't mess with anybody ideally, but the operations person at the place I was at anyway was very had been around for 20 years, knew everything. And so he did his card trick with this tiny little deck of cards. That's why we're in a Doom Loop now. They're pretty much identical cases and i uh it's a little bit infuriating because the Yeah, I was on a boat um in the in we riding alongside the uh It's not a breach. And you will ride away on this majestic horse. Do you ever feel sleepy, Alex? But she's like, how are you doing? And that was the whole business.

So I don't know how much you know about franchises, but already it gets very complicated when you're dealing with a franchise because you have all these people. and you got a little money to park somewhere, you buy a car wash, or you get a franchise. But a lot of McDonald's are franchises. Uh oh, hey, you know what we're gonna do? uh scare quotes. I did I sent I sent you the photo, right? Oh, it's not long story short, it's a picture of Bill Billy wearing that dorky crown and holding up a deck of cards and what's the card that's facing me? It's better. Bullstrap problem. So far you're doing great, apart from those two marks, those marks of color. Uh but no, but j j genuinely it was it wasn't it it wasn't the the like slurs or or uh whatnot.

Uh Michael Chimino. Wait, I'm sorry to interrupt. Until the environmentalists made them tear it down. That's almost a wholesome image. You're saying it's your last formal full-time job, there was not an aggressive attempt to HR the building? Which which domain name is now being promoted on television by Daniel Levy and uh and that girl I like from SNL? He was he was one of those guys like you didn't want to well uh like any operations person, you don't want to mess with this person, right? Like, yep, here is how your health insurance works, here is how you're going to expense things. for all the like local tourist things. crazy gerrymandering maps. two or three of which were like a majority of the I think were a majority of the m money coming in.

They created this infrastructure and they have a printing press. Like anything, like every area is different, like so different. When I first got hired, I had to take a piss test. Um, Maximilian, we'll just be here working while you guys while you guys are out there eating sand dabs and talking about vertical integration. or for the printing part of the company, like ninety some percent of the company from the people who sit at a desk to the people who s you know re f refill the ink to whatever That like if you can you can drop a dead cat cat and it'll still bounce. Like, you know, I I respected that guy and I did not mess with him. That's a big part of it. At least. Billy's cracker had a tiny deck of cards in it.

New York magazine, the cut, vulture, which is really, I think, really good. Uh kind of at the behest of my uh lady friend, I just subscribe to New York magazine again because I want to read all their good stuff. Crypto cryptic wisdom. From Search Engine, who has a podcast I like that I think you Panic World. You're already s uh s you're already Sigma. If you were a guitar solo, what guitar solo would you be? by Eddie Van Halen which I sure am not. Yes. What what are the things you look for in an iPhone case where it just hasn't happened yet? case that's the one you turned me on too for the with the fifteen I gave it to Madeline. I well compare it to the year of our Lord 2024 phones, it's quite little.

Podcast boys did. Bullstrap one, while it is eighty dollars for some reason, um, which I know Mr. If you're someone who has a uh gr a group of friends that all have the same iPhone and all have black cases, it's easy. Which is that I with my left index finger, you can actually probably see the angle, I scratch the back of whatever I'm holding. Sorry, go ahead. I think one reason I'm how I am about some things is because of trauma involving things like heat and sunburn and the associations of like See ocean liners, as my guy says, ocean liners are not the same thing as as as cruise ships. But think of an ocean liner as a bus. I uh I'm a very uh curious person and I tend to especially when I'm energetic, I tend to You remember Phil Collins wants to keep the bathhouse open?

And yet I think it really is better that you stay at your house for everybody, especially the children. And that concert where where I went to see ACDC and Ingve Malmstein and I didn't realize I was sitting by the cannons, that's when I was really whacked out on Rush. Hey, don't just go fucking around with this because it could really cause you already have a pretty delicate balance to keep, right? Um no no no. I Alex, I'm out of Sora credits already and it's killing me. And uh but and it wasn't an underline, it was a circle. Yes. Uh yes, is that okay? Let's see, there's uh the Borges story. Yes. Roderick talked a lot yesterday. You know, every every every month is eventful for somebody. And no, it's a stupid phrase.

Oh yeah, I've bet it's the real sleepy part. Uh from uh from HR. But until then. Uh well uh every person who works on a computer, I believe, was let go if they were over. Yes, sorry. Um, is sometimes when you're young, you know, you say stuff like touch grass or whatever, but you also say stuff like, How are you doing? No. isn't that much worse than HR. They just happen to have a really somebody bought a really good domain name, homes dot com, in like nineteen ninety-two or something. quote dot com, right? franchises that is when you as an independent person go to McDonald's and say, Hello, I would like to open a McDonald's and follow your rules. The idea is though you buy a territory. a very stable money making machine in Tallahassee, Florida, North Florida, right?

He can't he came in and like you know tapped on my desk, he said, uh, you know, hello Mr. Coalition, all those people have to be drug tested. God, drug testing. Also I've discovered a healthy cereal I don't dislike. as good as people in HR are, like everybody else in the company, they are there for the company. And so, I don't know, maybe I'm being cynical, but when you look at it through that lens, it does start to feel a little d when they come in and go like a cynical person would say, that when they come over and say, How are you feeling? Yep, yep. Oh no. Oh. Orin, O R E N, Tal, T A L, Tal, and Alon, and Alon Alexander. This is an unsealed federal indictment. Sst that was all weird. But but like you know, that new tr that new term I learned uh from the the podcast I like, you know, with the Chads and the Mega Chads and the Giga Chads, these guys seem very much the idea of like you know, what you wanna how you wanna Chad.

Kind of it's not really a tick, but an occasional like twitch I do. Yes, yeah. I know. I I think a and by a uh high school uh junior who is two. All right, all right. If I'm being honest, I think I am the solo from the 1957 Elvis Presley song Too Much. was pretty much done by July. I would say that I am a history buff as well, but I more of a um mm no, more of a Hitler amphetamine uh buff. Oh so yes and and you know what no I I'm more I'm a I'm a Karaoued as Where like I've never accepted I've never egg acknowledged, let alone accepted the terms of how I should be living my life from certain People with whom I'm acquainted, but I'm very familiar with with the Power Broker. Thanksgiving honestly, and I was like, is there any channel like because I I you know I've been trying to sell you on this Power Broker podcast.

So that's what we're talking about. I mean, cause he is here's one here's one thing that clues you to the fact that he's from a very different generation. You ever notice when English people, particularly people who are in royalty, there's a form famously the royal we, right? You know what I mean? to break the break the the bonds the um 'cause Hippah um hipa it ensures um And I think this is where you are at your most hypercritical in some ways is like you you have trouble sometimes it seems or challenge, ongoing project of trying to find the iPhone case that's right for you. Mr Mr. The uh we went above. Four. You get the chest measurement and then you get the actual measurement uh uh uh uh ser la tetes.

leather case company made by Ryan London. What you get out of that case versus mm, say fine woven for that same pole for some for like how much was fine woven? God, what if we what if we put you people through but you can't buy a house and your phone's confusing? question unless you have well I don't want to say how many questions there are that's none of your fucking business um what was your worst boat trip I was on. Oh, I can tell many times, Mr. where Dave Matthews uh bus dumped a bunch of shit off. Unless it's very unusual for people to say, Well, it's okay, we'll just drop you off on this little island and you can catch a packet back to the shore. stream your music. Um, I guess finally, is there anything that you would like to ask us?

you know, HIPAA. Just like he does. And especially um mm, you know, m Mr. And uh we're up in Newport Richie and we're gonna take their open boat which is I don't know, ten feet long. Open boat. 'cause it's one of the great things. Is that, you know, supposedly you do the poppers because that loosens up your sphincter. Some people call it locker room or rush where I'm from. Uh well I mean that's not true. So I wish that I had done more drugs. No, it it wasn't it mostly it wasn't that. I mean how you see No no uh I uh you know Alex Cox, not a doctor, but uh including my psychiatrist, really like uh not kept bullish on a lot of uh like THC THC stuff and um not uh like m you know, ketamine and psychedelics are all very much uh in at the moment, which is a kind of gross I am very n nervous about any sort of like it's especially uh uh an even a normal kole si situation where it's like The st yeah, even even the standard and you you know you walk in if you walk into the clinic and you see Mr.

Basically like one of those those troubled men you hear about. And why why do they do it why do they do it every time that way? It might just be a slate thing. you know, uh Lila to Williger or whatever. Because it just it sounds like it sounds like baby like you had to rush out and leave your baby with a teen for a minute, you know, with a little help from Lila to Williger. I yeah, yeah, it was it was a little hard to listen to. Oh well that would be a cool story if he wasn't so energetic. Uh the curse is may you live in interesting times. You didn't miss much. You ask it as a question, like Mother May I. of a large publishing company. um most famously could like could apparate is that the word what's the Harry Potter thing for when you just make stuff appear like you could just go like okay We need we need this thing to go from being a warehouse into six offices and it need you know what I mean, that kind of thing and like all the chairs are there and everything's worked out and it just runs like a top.

But there's n this is in Tallahassee, Florida, and you do not shuck and jive around that Yeah. Man. Uh I don't know if I sure I at one point I I think the company I work for was the if not the first, the largest full color real estate magazine in the US and it was a franchise system. Oh my. of NoMore. But um I mean this is not a new thing to people who think a lot about this stuff, but a breakthrough for me was learning And then once you learn, you see the extent to which it seems like HR is there to be your pal and help you, but in some ways the reason HR gets funded the way it does, in addition to keeping the operations rolling. is to protect the company. trusts or g goes to HR expecting a positive outcome for themselves just.

The sex trafficking that you are personally most likely to get in trouble for at this point, given that more and more people are sex trafficking, are you aware of anything you're involved in now or in in the recent past that we need to know about with sex trafficking? Um, I have been around children and been queer at the same time. You suc you successfully answered that question. Oh I see th if we're in the operations part of the other. w which is part of uh curbed it's part of uh you know the New York magazine family. with Megastar Real Estate brothers named Orin, Tall, and Alon. The and yeah, I I learned that the phenomenon of mewing looks a little bit like a But that's that's there's nothing else we need to know about.

to think that I'm almost with you by the church. You know, it's funny, you know, it's like how people don't know or don't care that, you know, we hear about the summer of love, right, in San Francisco in nineteen sixty seven and you think about it like as the beginning of this age, but really the summer of love that was anywhere near good Boombox if you're a song. God, I love that book. And um I've listened uh I've I've read bits of it. uh uh not a s series, but inside of 99% invisible over the past year, once a month, Elliot Kalen and um Roman Mars cover about a hundred pages of the Power Broker and then usually talk to somebody. how I uh like pictured h him and also heard him in my head before I uh uh or actually heard him read or or actually talk But then he'll say like, you know, he says it as you.

But um this has been a very influential uh fucking crazy story on a lot of people. I want to say his name so he think he's good at his job and he might be a Bobby or a Henry or something like that. Well, Roy, it's a few minutes. the uh but I was never able to find the correct s one that would Yes no no one also could you please try to keep it work appropriate. It's oh, i it's so just it's like a spelt but grippy at the same time. would just like to say as an employee of uh whatever is happening right now that while I think we might be Mr. Oh no. You know, you get back problems. Which Massy yes and I thought they were cool and also way too expensive before those accidental tech Wild. free engraving.

uh a a big boy phone daily and I don't have my little divot anymore. And uh they were I should say they weren't enthusiastic about the very gay boat Uh in addition to the permanent mark on my left pinky finger from from from cradling. Chicago River, not a long it was a Chicago River boat ride, and there were some very enthusiastic people in front of Trump Tower in Chicago. of the not liking because uh it's why why you gotta seriously what the fuck why do you have to be like that also likes vegetables. But you aren't ready for it. And I got the worst sunburn up. Not to do too much history, but my my best friend in high school, Sam, uh, who went to New College, was the first child of graduates to go to or of, you know, of alumni to go to New College.

He's the one who persuaded me and as I said before I still have some feeling that his father pulled strings to get me in and I'm ashamed of it. So like that one, I had like second degree burns, like my skin was moving a little bit in parts. Yeah. You know what there's just the the whole the whole cruise thing is not for me. Well, but but uh but but look I gotta say I know it's a cliche and I don't fucking care. Bathhouse. uh the any sort of drugs would make me uh it would either make me, you know, r really tired or really energetic and enthusiastic. thing to say, but it's No, but I mean like there's there's benefits to this stuff that you can see, I mean one can see you know, uh damage that could be done by the wrong people having the wrong stuff and the wrong amount at the wrong time.

Oh, I thought you weren't using the internet anymore. I didn't underline it. from Jane Doe or you got a got a little boost. works at let's say slate, that means another employee who doesn't work on that project but is employed by the company still like ba-ba-ba NHR is NHR. But at the but then they they changed it so that uh because I was one of the earlier hires of the dot com. That's well that's what what I was wondering. Oh oh so many reasons. Uh I do need to just go over some things with you. Mmm, unless you go on cameo. Apart from the atmospheric ambient grooming that you've done by existing and occasionally being in public, as we call our ourselves. is when Queen Elizabeth is talking about obviously talking about herself, she says that one feels a certain way or one isn't prepared for that.

Tall, a Oran Tall and a Which is their names are very close to a very famous uh Borges short story. Uh that some people it's very difficult to grasp certain types of empathy and like things that are in bras. Um he was he ate, you know, he we go to the, you know, the community like uh grocery store and he he's the one who turned me on to whole wheat pasta. And this is nothing against anybody in particular, but again, a phrase I first picked up from Adam that's become so important to me. My mm. I like his singing. Oh, oh I see. I understand. relations or like company or no no no, it should be like company relations. The last jobby job I had, it was a very strange organization. uh de facto coverage of like I am the Hilton Head guy and they might sell like two more Hilton Head ones and they're all bent out of shape.

Dude, it was 1999. But uh yeah, that that's that's real good. That's what I call it. basically more than six inches. Operate in a way that would be perfectly compatible with my hands. Oh, you're in trouble. Six hours. Oh on on rush. We can see that there are benefits to to can be benefits to all of these things. Yes. an equal and opposite as in you you did not fuck with him, but he also did not fuck with you. But you have to start by going no no no if you've ever seen you ever visit any like vacation-y area you know like when you go to a hotel when you're on vacation and you see all the pamphlets I sh I haven't told anybody, but I I did let Elon Musk inseminate me. No, actually. Jazz uh solo in G I G major by encryption and uh most uh top of mind for us.

Oh, don't get me started. Okay. Okay. Oh god. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh man, I got it. And uh I did not successfully find an iPhone case for what I would call the current phone size, as in You're laughing? I uh wish empathy upon uh as many people as possible. Mr. Or whether you're gonna file some kind of a claim that then they have to deal with, or you're gonna like say something or do something that besmirches the company, or you're behaving in a way that makes it hard to manage other people. Oh no. I haven't listened to the most uh r recent in yeah, yeah, I think they're they called mini series. I think my I think my guy's getting a little campy just so you I can hear the wrist just.

And I I it's I I feel your frustration and I acknowledge that, but oh my goodness, this is we're getting to some real bargain basement internet shit. Yeah, they really didn't like the the it wasn't the not liking, it was honestly the loudness. Um what was it talking about? Got my entire mouth around the outside turned into a basically a cold sore for like two and a half weeks Attention please. Can I get you to just just take a look at these chodes? And for X. And it seemed like I had mono. I I I just don't know if uh Alex Cox would ever get on a cruise ship for any reason. Okay, you gotta get back you gotta get back on gotta get back on Elon Musk source. That's a really good question. Well, uh it I think is a generational s situation where I don't really know a millennial who Like they're you like that podcast, right?

Fourth of July 2016. Oh man. Oh my voice is everywhere, man. He his voice, my goodness, I I understand Sweet and exactly and went back in and returned it. I thank you. Mr. As we just had, like if you were an internet explorer and you typed in homes, it would go to our website. I mean, I I'm sorry. Henry but I think I think you know I I think Designs by Mr Roy. You were in trouble before you started here, and it's not getting better. So do uh I don't know if you can do this in Google Maps, but if you go from um Port Richie, New Port Richie to Bradenton or Sarasota on a boat. I I laughed too hard at the at the idea of me having lots of interactions with HR people. But anyhow, my point being, I n I feel certain that we've talked about this before, but I don't care.

Come on. You know what, Roy Hugo, I just I really admire you and the work that we do here. Sometimes you feel a little bit energetic, you you get some motivation to get out there, just start riding the rails. No, not as much. HR in general, or at least the narrative built around HR, because the the idea of oh we're a family here I it's gonna be a tough transition for you to get back into the swing of things, but you know, as an operations affiliate With all with all due respect, I don't think I need to draw a max. And he does a similar thing where he he first he says, I shouldn't say this because it makes me sound boastful. Uh f you you're well known for being having strong opinions about phone cases But w I mean m but Mr.

Fat Mr. The the horse uh he offered to I believe he offered a woman a horse if he could inseminate her. Oh, 42 degrees. Um because then you'd have to pay them more. Well, it is good to talk to you. It's it's not a coin flip, but it's definitely weighted in a certain way to do it. Didn't really save it at the end, did he? And you're you you you love it too, right? Yeah, it was made out of it was made out of like packing material and tears. So it's been I think six months since I haven't uh I I since I haven't like d used a f But it was not like what I can imagine to be the worst boat ride to ever happen in Chicago. The cube! Okay, uh a little while ago I wrote down two pages earlier that you consider yourself a history buff.

Um I mean that's pretty much gonna be it. Yeah, that's oh god, that's really, really gross. That's so weird. Too high. What's it called? I call it. It's more uh you know, what is this, har fleur? I just go to Berkeley Bowl. There it has five beds, Alex. Oh that is so was there like a security card there with a banker's box the whole night? I get I get so many nice notes from you people, some of my favorite people in the world. It's an umbrella group like United Healthcare. I don't mean to be ego assertive. We did. You you you cannot eat eat, you know, microwave goat at your desk, Sarah. Um I let's see if I can find this. It all started in the doom the Doom Loop. Pete, uh, Pete, uh, boy, Pete would make dude take some incredible shits in our bathroom.

They have the best fries of corporate. You know about this this thing where like the internet's taking off. I wrote that a month ago. I thought I had underlined it. So go free. But you should have bait from the start into the big. Is iPhone 5 the one that was square? I saw one on a TV show the other day and I creamed my jeans, man. Oh, uh it's aga again, it's funny that you should mention that, Mr. You're in trouble. Moved California, Mel Menlo Park, you know, Silicon Valley, whole nine, venture capital, you know, because we were, you know, riding the wave. And then as it caught on, they started having more territories in hot areas. Um that's called Talon Uk Ukbar Orbis Tertius and it's from 1940.

I don't say fictions, I say fictionis. You wanted to be grippy, huh? Fat Cat Did you know my phone, my new my new ish phone is named Fancy after that character. So we're always you know, your security is you know concerning and we have we are aware of the What's that guy's name? Confusing my songs. I've had like gone to like mud baths and stuff like that, but I really I kind of feel like I really want a massage, but I feel very awkward about it. Yes. I was I had a sunburn and symptoms of the subsequent sun poisoning for almost Oh fuck that's really dangerous. And sh I think yes. Okay, um let's see. I I don't think so. It's called Are you talking about Western Kabuki or are you talking about search engine?

You're did you see the Gia Tolentino piece? I'm I'm talking about the guy who my roommate in college on the vial. I'm like uh I'm a seasoned technologist. No. So No, I don't think so. Something some things happened this m month. And I know a lot of people aren't into engraving but bull strap. I appreciate this. Roy. Well, but do do you know? Elon Musk and a Clydesdale hit the clubs together tonight. But when you're doing a podcast and you do those credits at the end and you say that you got a little help, I I don't I've never had a chance to I don't have a lot of opportunities to talk about this, but one that comes straight to mind that's crazy was that this is in Tallahassee. We ate a lot of sand dabs.

Every time it's interesting or something. No, not at all. And sometimes you see a rack with um like free like real estate magazines of like upscale properties. Was it uh not not actually not just racial, but but um you were you all the the big California boys making a bunch of uh m money with your sandabs? And that's not so obvious now, but like if you look look at it through that lens And George Clooney, it might be George Clooney's best movie. But a caro head. It's what's what's been so frustrating, Mr. But um we were gonna go and pick up Sam at New College. I s I just a boat's to me. I mean it was, you know, it was it was in that, you know, like where you know they talk about like a dead cat bounce.

com go burg, yeah. Because everybody was already getting getting all kinds of sex diseases and overdosing on drugs of unknown quality and and it immediately became Just filling it with ketamine. I'm um Yeah. Him him basically being hired to go on a cruise. Attention please potential baby baskets. Uh yeah. All I can say is I grew up in Ohio and the way we say it is, um, may you live in interesting times? Famously, I've never really had an HR person. It's nice to talk to you again. Ew no. But like you know, I uh do you still want the cube, Chris? You're already in trouble. You can't escape it. Well was it about uh thank you very much, Mr. It's to get you from here. Like there's other people in there doing analytics after doing anal nitrates in there.

Be honest. I consider magic a form of assault. Yeah, yeah. You're going to just just intimidate intimidate too many people. We don't cover that by the way. It's right down the street. This is the main show, Alex. Otherwise known as anal nitrates. If he were to buy me I wouldn't say yes to the horse, but if it was like okay, things that's being tranquilized. So he was able to like he has a he has a card trick he learned uh to to do at the exploratorium in as one in one of the demos. Roy, the Eric Larsen book. But um the right uh but I don't think that uh e even in my t uh twenties and now into my thirties that It was a place that basically owned a printing press and then because they owned a really good domain name And the printing press runs 24 hours a day, because that's how printing press do.

I mean it is a printing press and this is Florida. Where do you see your iPhone case in five years? Oh n you know, Mr. And I was so you know how I am and you know you know my history. I just haven't had a chance to use it. Oh, I didn't tell you I found the Jeff Goldblum image. Yes. Um, we uh we haven't recorded for a little while and that's not a problem except There's uh oh, un unsealed photo wait, photo indictment? No, I I mean I have high-fived uh uh children before. I think it's not a good I think it's not a good look to celebrate a murder. I mean, do you like show up do you show up at the club and you bring in your your podsdale? Is there anything you want to talk about at the top? I basically could just lay there and not move for three weeks.

You have to have to be from Long Island to understand books. And I um one was the company uh one was from the company Bullstrap I don't think I've ever returned bastard my life. Are you ready for this? I think he's uh four forty-two folders. Oh, let me send you the actual photo. I I'm I'm buffy. Mmm, no, I like it as as a curse, no. I think unless you go on cameo. Community grocery store as opposed to Well, like a co op? I understand. Alex, that was a code word. Corporate McDonald's has the best everything, at least in my experience. Did you have anything else you want to talk about before I go through your questions? Yes. Sixteens. Roy, what I have found so frustrating is Mm-hmm. Uh oh yeah, so anyway, um uh what was it talking about?

And uh oh, what an episode. I well, and I I can only speculate in ways that are not very flattering and are just speculation. Heritage Flakes from Trader Joe's. Michael Michael Shabon? See, like you know how RFK RFK loves being photographed with a shirt off? But I did write down Jeff Goldblum in a Moschine. I I think you f you have had real jobs and I I guess I suppose like let's call it human Look at these guys. Have you read The Power Broker Merlin? You know what I read? Mr. Oh, all right. Anyway, long story short. And I did let them test my urine. Or hasn't happened on a phone that, you know, like a model that'll that'll work? He doesn't have room for me, but bought five beds. Um but the um it's a it's a kind of like a fish.

We did Christmas crackers at Thanksgiving and uh you know it this is actually funny. That's what we wanted to hear. Oh, the d Doom Loop was Doom Loop. He says like, you know, you're never really ready for this and you don't know that $5,000 isn't going to be enough to keep you keep you keep you and your wife alive for seven years Oh I'll also put this somewhere, I guess. If it's Wil with help from L Lila to Williger and uh Lila to Williger, Uh there it hasn't been an eventful month. With that that one guy that was on uh search engine? Alright, I misspoke. We don't cover that. Yes, yes. Um hey, on on podcasts, now I thought this I at first I thought this was perhaps a slate thing. Let me just check one more time.

Now I have an interest in watching it, but for different reasons. Ugh. Yeah. Roy, shall we continue? You're gonna go from Southampton to uh to New York. And because it was called the name brand we would get was Rush and it said rush in red letters. The um that doesn't mean it's alive, it just means that it bounced once. Full disclosure. Trepidatious about bringing you in, and it hasn't gotten better. I understand that XCOX. Oh I I don't know. Motel had expressed an interest in it, so I bought her copy and she's been reading it, but it kind of kicked off with No, please. So like you might buy Hilton Head or a certain area of Hilton Head with these Well don't don't ap apologize to uh the the folks.

Oh I'm uh literally, figuratively, where are we? There's no challenge or anything, right? It's almost I've been sleepy for about a month, but We gotta get on the internet. Well, yeah, and the 911 didn't help. A carrow head. I read one chapter. You are a firework. I mean, uh it's not I don't love it. Have you tried to find gravity? And why is that not a job title that somebody could put on a resume? Real, real sleepy lately. Personality, welcome to the company. Uh is this because of all my jaw maxing, Alex? But he seems like how he would sound. Hmm. Roy understands. This is uh I'm sorry. Yes, but when someone says we live in interesting times, I'm like, well No. Why would you want my urine? I got a feeling this place, this office is still loaded with cards.

Oh, an improvised Oh, real real real quick, folks. Um John is very energetic. Because there are a few things just I don't we don't have to do it for the show, but I mean, you know, whatever's What? Right. Ryan London. Yeah. Mr. Rush. I'm buffy uh but like through YouTube and stuff, I get buffy. And as it as it happens, your contract, I guess, is coming up for renewal? No, no, you're already so I don't like to talk about it's intimidating. His name is Francis and I love him. He's very energetic. She doesn't like it. Roy doesn't like when we talk about bazooms. I wrote all of these a month ago. What's that guy's name? It all comes back to operations, don't it? Okay. So think about this. Um but w something I think special as opposed to those regular K-holes that you often find yourself in.

Um I'll I'll I'll hook you up. Have you heard Panic World? Yeah. I um I would like to think that I'm eruption C can I ask you not to respond by telling me what to do? Oh, this fancy Mr. It's a cliche for a reason. Operations people make it happen. Roy, it's it's really funny you ask that. Roy, is I went I have been using a backup uh phone, which is a Pixel 3. And uh but there's a s another very similar I still have my divot from my watch and so I'm like, oh I guess the the little Alex, I think you're healing, sweetie. I l I have spent m a lot of time out of my house in the the past uh m a month, but I don't think I worry What is that? Uh uh for sure all the way through. Anal nitrate. Yeah. I've listened to a whole podcast about it.

Yes. No, I don't know. It's what a great fucking phone. Please. And this seems there's a lot of like caring for each other. Oh oh wow. But I just signed up this morning and the first article that I saw was on the website Curbed Roy. Alex, I love you. Roy profits are important, but there's a little bowl I think pound for pound, dollar for dollar I think we're almost done. Wow yes. No, the franchisees hate that. Oh yeah. I hate it. Uh no, no. But then you didn't have to get a piss test if you're in the dot-com part, and that was understandably very controversial. You know, and he's actually somebody I think in there said to me, I was like, what's up with this? Remember when you had to wash your groceries?

And I I know we don't we're not supposed to like David Foster Wallace anymore. I have with me a Budweiser Clydesdale. Is it just in on a postcard? What the fuck does that mean? It's it's funny that you Well what's my name again, Mr. Who oh whoa no no no. He did Wonder Boys? You can th there there's overlap, but an ocean liner, he says you could think of a cruise ship, what did he say, as a parting limo Are you mgling the curse that is purportedly to be from the land of China? I don't know. It's not worth going into, but like I was at the dot-com part. From from from like his last big original year, 56 and 57 were like, that's I I'm not even gonna discuss it. I I I walked out of the st You um and so was it the the the the they didn't like the the weirdos on the boat?

I understand that you have a desire to understand the world through experience. Musk coming out and he might also pull you into a meeting and have questions about phone cases. I f I don't I don't know. I mean I'm more of a bottom person, but we did have an amazing operations guy, but it was uh I suppose You know, and so franchise, yeah, exactly. I guess you're gonna save it with the dot com. I absolutely have heard that before, and this C D is currently in my dad's Yes, the um Is that the Fast Food Nation guy? And I'll tell you these ocean liners, man. Okay, so I've got that image. There's there's been some some lag. This is due by Friday, a nominally weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

I do subscribe th to the theory that m m we live in interesting times is an incredibly silly and the other thing. I'd see why you'd want my semen, because we need to repopulate. Okay. I love it. Like is there anything you want to talk about before I'll see oh see if I have any other good jokes I can tell you. A printing press that runs 24 hours a day. They're very good. But I also sent this, uh, of course, I sent this to our to our friend. But but you gotta say a carrow head. And I r I appreciate our our time together. No, it was over Zoom. I worked in a franchise. Oh, for for every Because that guy, the guy you don't fuck with Yeah, we should talk about that at some point. Ah, yes, yes. My fallback would be I'd like to Yes.

Do you want the cube? So interesting to me. Hello. Well I guess it's better than him being sleepy. May may you live in interesting times? I just sent you a picture of mine. You're not breaching a castle in Henry You're in Henry V When you're when you're feeling energetic, perhaps one's uh one one thinks that one's one's uh inhibitions are less inhibited. And that's I mean, not the same, but very similar for me. It's just there's a real thistle between like the best possible outcome you can imagine and the societal That was our value proposition. Um this is uh something you like you will notice this There are two leather cases that I enjoyed quite a bit because I know the story inside of you are two leather cases.

Ryan London free I don't know for the I'm I'm thinking of the guy who really likes uh LSD and uh Just one. Like a it's just like a little boat you go out and fish in or ride it out to the sea camp or whatever. Oh, I think. That was That was kind of something, huh? You don't mess with the office manager. So and then now you got this new thing, which is the dot com, which is this rogue operation that mostly runs out of California. You know that um you know Christmas crackers? Is there anything you're excited about right now? So I as usual I don't know who the Alexander brothers are. What's the name of the show? Ah that was me. So um next question. So the thing is you are famously, perhaps Henry.

That's why all iPhone cases are in cup sizes. Never forget. Go read a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again I think he's um I think he's a very interesting guy, and I like his whole deal. There was there was finally at uh towards the end Words. And then that franchisee who used to have the, if not the full rights on a map, at least the I hate it. Okay, you're way ahead of me. And the operations guy was like, man. And then it was like, okay, but now everybody who works in Tallahassee I did read RM. And that gives you the encumbrance necessary. Drive a Nissan Cube. Am I in trouble how am I in trouble this time? Oh, hooray! Was there also a big uh di racial divide there or was this like all I um I just um Sorry folks, what I'm talking about here is a what do they call it?

That was my worst boat ride, but it did introduce me to new college. But anyhow, the um but and I was like, um, okay. But um but the uh yeah yeah so anyway it's just in the service of saying You know what? It's it started with an interesting time. He's so he's so thorough, he's so thoughtful. The kids call it cradling. I wrote all of these jokes, and they are jokes. No, you are beautiful. Yes. So anyway. In the UK. Uh I think he's the one who says if you want to stay alive and live past 80, you have to own part of a cow. And of course, because I already would get cold sores because I'm just like how I am, like I No! Like he he was basically the guy who was That's what that's what good operations people make it happen.

I thought I did know something about fran But which is kind of pretentious. I'm sorry, Mr. I did and I did and I don't disagree with her. Mr. I did write down Jeff Goldblum at a 42-degree angle and then circled it. I mean healthy. Just one firework. Ma'am, I wish that I that's not true. What is the name of that wonderful story? And when my eyes were better, you know, it'd be the right size and everything. It's not a good look And now Oh uh excuse me, uh, Mr. I got my kid holding up a card. Their job is to like two Yeah, I was blacked out, but I think that's what happened. Yeah. Roy is curious. Oh boy. Yes, yes. The franchisees hate that. That's a pretty good show, huh? I was in stage ban and didn't know what I was doing.

I have a compulsion that I realized a few years ago. But I don't know. It was uh Alex, you ever felt energetic? Like, isn't that a thing y'all do with each other, you people? Boy, did I work around a franchise. But uh I think it's it's probably uh what do they call it, a fixed deck or a prepared deck. Like I and again, I I I'm not trying to steal valor here, but I've said this to my family in a way that I think doesn't get much truck with them. Um, anyway, there. And why why okay, sorry. Somebody named their children Orin Yes, that yes, that is. That's that's w why Uh in the postcard. Uh you know, look my main thing to do, I want to get this fucking episode out. Same way that the general counsel is there, they're not gonna go and litigate every case.

Question number one. Spine's not broken. Well here it is it's it's like bras Roy. So I am celebr I'm not s I uh I wish yeah The after show, Alex Cox had a great uh uh experience at a It wasn't that kind. Yeah. I am talking back to the iPhone 6 ever since The South African juice is what you want in your horse and you'll be feeling it now. Yes, yes. You say so McDonald's, there are corporate McDonald's. I just I uh people in future generations are gonna find cards in this place. Is it uh Ghost Guns? God. Okay. Wasn't it like fifty, sixty bucks? Never forget. God damn it. So I'm just wondering, was it was HR like that where sometimes they just come by and go, You're quiet today. If you remember that's the one where they're like if there's any chapter you should go read, it's RM.

We have we have we have approximately two thousand companies under us. Everyone who uh in the world who is let go I'm not I'm no not it's not because of you, Alex. We are fans. And I'm I'm holding this thing and it it moves. And I I see I So we had we had uh we had oh God what was that wonderful thing Christina Aguilera said And there was like, hey, you know, and you can go check out New College and see what you think. Sorry, speaking here of your of your previous employer that had like uh Are you okay? Um the headline I saw is the Alexander brothers have been arrested and charged with sex trafficking. Mm-hmm. It was the humidity. Well, unless someone were d to give me a lot of money to give it a sort of thing.

And then. This isn't reconcilable differences. What does what does it mean? I love when he says, This makes me sound boastful. What is your quickest return? Mm-hmm. First of all, Mr. I love you too, Merlin. No, I understand. I've literally had only one meeting with an HR person. Um so like it was we had no idea how close we were to the end. Oh, because it's George. And you know what? But in any case, we went uh so I'm with Sam's family up in Newport Richie. I uh uh I have to say, uh Mr. After shower. I could see that or like Putin on a horse. And then on top of it all, after years of this and all these different franchisees You you know what? I'm very buffy about ocean liners right now, just boat accidents in general Oh, but it's okay.

But that was but only only just to say that, yeah Because uh I right now I don't have uh I d I have broken my iPhone as they talked about in the past. Um what what's the question? I I put it on I put it on the um I put it on the internet. There's a I guess I mean I guess depending on how you measure it It's not for me. They don't want to be national. Question number one. It's pretty good for like forty-five bucks a year you get, you know So yes. Got it. Uh but we are constantly My questions. But It wasn't that kind. It's a bit on Taskmaster how terrible the little prizes are in uh That was weird. I had to change it at Ellis Island was Hugo Wits before I came here. Um I don't know. No like jobs that I've had uh and i a as ever I can only speak, you know, from my own experience with these things, but I need a catchphrase.

And I've actually dug some divots into iPad cases that way. I'm so happy to hear your voice. Oh Yeah Hello, hello, hello. Fourth of July 2016. I'm talking about the guy I learned about I uh no, no. Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I think my name is Roy Henry. This might be show art and had like lightning bolts on it. And I just That's a known issue, right? Oh, yeah. I have mixed feelings about the idea of Like that's really disruptive to other people, you know? Oh, you cause Tilda Swinton is general counseling it, just so you know. Not apologizing to the folks. I had gotten close with the smartish grip Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? You just described Pete. Roy is speaking in the third person. But that wonderful essay he wrote, oh, isn't he canceled or something?

Like where are we today with you in phone cases? That was that was something. Uh just no describe your dream phone case I wrote all of these a month ago. Um and I w would have said no. Let me just let you answer. Really? But um, but anyhow, the um The thing where you that's an English thing where you you do what those are? But what you will often hear, even in c casual situations, at least on the crown and similar He's definitely he's definitely not uh what what was that terrible name from the sex man? Wait, wait. I've got um but uh anyway, I'm really glad to have found that. Well I mean I I've learned this from you and from from if I'm being honest, people like you. Just like calling the cops.

Oh my god, what's happening? Just frankly insufferable. Um I was on a boat. Oh, good morning, everyone. The little sandwich was the four Thirsty Fancy It's it's here in my screen screenwriting programs. My life is it's so virtual at this point. Jeez. You did not you did not walk in under my net Oh my god. But also I think it's so cute when he says love stuff like Do you know about replacement theory, Alex? We know that everybody sucks sex traffics. Uh Oh, I wish. They wanna like it's very super regional and But like, you know, they just they hired dependable white people. I gotta write these down. Well, I'm I mean I'm a history buff, so I like to look at stuff like that. And you should read about this.

Yeah. They're all that kind, Alex. I don't I don't know how to go about it. We're allowed to bu talk about things more than once. Okay, that's that's that's a totally legitimate question. Anyways, I was in a K hole. Have you tried the bullstrap case? Yeah, I'm holding your space right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um I I just so you're so as you sit here today, you're not No Borhace. Mr. It was yeah, well it was how loud their muse Like Um I it's just hard for me to believe that you would see sex trafficking. All right I could definitely see Elon Musk on on a horse It was sold as a premium product. I first of all I'm very I've never been to a spa. If you when you call the cops, someone will get in trouble.

Um Roy? You you wanna have now I've got the the They had a seacamp. What does it mean at the end of what next when they say with a little help from um Well unfortunately that's your first black mark, well African American mark, is to say as to ask me Roy Industries. I'm stealing so much from Chris Fleming, but I don't care. Let me put my mean bone in your K-hole Well we'll just do about five more minutes and then we'll do our our very special bonus episode. Oh, okay. So so don't think of like I got hired at a Yes. Yes. Okay. I've been preparing this the whole time. And I think at least for now, that was a good thing I I d didn't I have indeed How do you franchise classic is like if you're a retired if you're a retired sports person I'm trying to save my I'm girding myself against my quote unquote friends.

It's like you would be allowed to be boastful, but I love that you're not. More f you know, a ferry if you like. Um that's wait, anal nitrate? Okay, good. But anyhow, at that place, and it was I need a name for this character. Apparently I'm a hair designer, operations guy, and sex criminal. And it didn't matter, I wasn't, you know, doing drugs. You should really just actually read the story because it's completely fucking bonkers. Oh What month is it? I'm just done defending how I live my life to certain people. Hugo Roy that Well we'll see if we can get this one out. All right, good, good, good. I I have a feeling that that would probably be my solo. Oh dude, oh it's so good. What's the dream?

Wait the bull stra wait. Roy has questions. But the b the Mr. Um I was in a special K-hole. Oh, and then oh yeah. Every square inch. I'm one of those I'm It's one of those little uh Whatever you expect, like once you're on the boat, like One wonders why he does that. I was on a boat for six hours one time in 1986. Don't you have to be double careful of that? What do you think it's called a bathhouse? Oh are you? And and Robert Moses Yeah Um, a stilt house was really cool. This week's challenge, climb on Elon Musk's Weird Sex Horse. Um Mr. Almost bought a car from the tour manager for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. He seems very very energetic. Is that part of a cultural is that a South African thing?

My question to you is are you aware of what Caro. I'm not sure who he is. I think you're healing. Do you know how many times I've rehearsed this? Did you ever watch Michael Clayton? Short story. For your boat it's probably a ferry. You can look at a map to do this Was it when you when you left? What they're really trying to suss out is whether you're gonna sue them. I mean we're we're almost done. Yes. Is it is is that okay? Oh, are we talking about iPhone K the bull strap? London Company and the Mr. Roy is very pleased to hear that. Well the uh I uh i the Hitler and Fed mean b buff. So one that I remember was Excuse me. That means real time They talked to Mr. No, I take it back. Yeah, and you wear the little crown.

Didn't you ever see in the van plate on? Are you okay? It's inficiones. But anyhow, like I was saying He's not very good at his job. And it turns out I circled it. Caro. What's his name? I think Of like Yeah. That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Carrow on stage. Ooh, ow. Can we stop? And it might be you. Wow. Oral? Um It makes some fillies, of course. Bull Company But like Well that's the irony. This is an opportunity for you. Um Oh Christ Last raw transcript