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They're like, no, like people get just as mad here as they would at McDonald's. What you anticipate in terms of that's the idea, is like they you you mentioned it, they have agency in their job to do their job well. And she said, N don't ask your wife if she wants a glass of water. Don't ask them how we do. and crouch down or sit in the fucking banquette next to me. Uh Pika Pikachu eats mostly dirt. Pat Rothfuss said that he'd realized something really important and uh boy has it ever had an impact on me. Like regardless of whatever success this song had in the past, what is the song for Squeeze? I'd love to talk more about the Velvet. Uh listen, uh the Zach Krieger is on Blank Check. And he goes, Pooh.

I'm gonna keep writing these down. tie off Trump two point eight. Crown and I find finding it very easy to lap into Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher. left. And I'm watching that is so odd, Alex. I try to be careful about saying whether I envy something or whether I'm jealous of something. Yeah, yes, and but uh yes and confession it's it's like, oh yeah, you go and your sins are w washed away. But I I think people say jealous because that's the word, you know, that's the word we use for things. I just wanted to put down my prediction in our Super Secret Private Tech channel. But I mean then don't you think some of that just I'm I'm becoming a little bit cable news here. I liked the way that sounded and people made a noise that I liked.

Mm-hmm. Tip goal one. Also, not like an Oxford collar that is designed to be worn without a tie. elect electric media blue shirt. And I don't remember him if he would like specifically like take off his shoes, but he had like at least like driving moccasins. Well n he was alive at the time, but a post Steve Jobs era sort of like power move where people go, Oh, if you're like the really big guy W And one time uh uh it was the boss's boss's girlfriend came up with this idea. Uh no, no. Yeah, there's no but there's no more pets. Ts I I wanna know. There's this really interesting lunatic cop who like is obsessed with serial killers and wants to like make sure that Miranda gets her thing gets her justice by putting Amanda Knox away.

They take her phone away and her boss had said to her, We don't I don't need you to work today and he wrote back she wrote back to him before smoking marijuana and having sex with her boyfriend. Oh I'm very excited. But I I'd shaved and I and I did a little uh cleanup of my hair a little bit. Oh look at those eyebrows. Like drippy water. Yeah. It's a it's a costly automobile. were with black cars. uh me and my friend Jesse Char and Jesse lived kind of in a Castro-ish church street area and like she got dropped off and the guy took me home and he was kind of weird and like Jeffrey Epstein Jeff Epstein and you immediately go into some kind of conniption. The New York financier. But it's just, to me, that is, boy, I could really use that.

Grow up. I'm I also really do like the whole like something I believe in that I understand why informally over the years. We've gotten to a point. But like I don't like it when you say thank you to somebody and they say no problem. I think you in most cases you probably also shouldn't say thank you. You're welcome. You should, even before it arrives, you should download um a PDF of the manual and put it on a cloud drive is my suggestion to you. Always address guests by their name, mister Smith, Ms. Is it that your TV's difficult to use or that you want them to interrupt you. Like they don't have to do that. Oh my goodness. And holy fuck, I did. somewhere and you just hear Richard from the next room going, oh bogie.

hotel manager slash super concierge like he will the way that Tom Hiddleston oh my god the night manager is so good and you know who's in it Naples, Florida, the only city in America with two Ritz-Carltons. That's the thing, it's like a half and half sort of situation that you kind of and and by that I kind of uh s Hello, can I have a strawberry daiquiri, please? for so many reasons incredible. I I will always take a Toblerone o over MMs. y it would be tuned to the kind of either the radio station you like or the kind of music or whatever that you like. probably differently than this couple that's obviously having a tense conversation versus this six guys who order steak. and a waiter. At that point, the parents or whomever, whoever's the the adults with the kid are, are in a position to say, oh, actually, you know, we don't want to spoil her appetite or he's gluten intolerant or whatever, you can respond, but mainly your response is going to be, oh my God, thank you.

And I I honestly mean this as this is something that I would really appreciate and I I'm honestly trying to save you effort and frustration. And like I'm like, I I drink a lot of water, so if there's any chance you could bring us like a carafe or something, that would be awesome. And not just those places where it's a tiny little drinking glass and a cute little. You don't have to run around to like the least important thing you could conceivably do is like filling somebody's water glass. But at one point a little later on, not too much later, the guy came out with a book from the kitchen. Fuck, uh office space, like with the flare. He pleased with yourselves. There's so many levels to to different Pikachu.

and you're thinking and sometimes the thing just kind of goes through your head. And just that like reverse it the meme in reverse go goes into m my mind. Do I want people to think I'm a goodie and jitchy? Don't compare your backstage to other people's on stage. Where am I inmates? the default consequences of a lot of conventional wisdom. Yeah, that's a really good point. Or I'll just but I'll suddenly in that particular song is there's a way I have so many different ways I sing along with that song, Nexan Wine. Right? On the internet, there's a pretty good chance I'm gonna respond by going, baby! Ah, that's nice. Like there's the songs I think of as Billy Idol hits, but like what's the song that like kills it on streaming and everybody associates?

I think it's an absolutely extraordinary song. Almost Famous and we're mentioning it here because there's a great scene in Almost Famous where everybody sings along to it on the on the band's bus right at the moment when the Cameron Crow character is thinking about going back home. No, because you were like You saw it twice in a weekend and now you're deranged. Curious George is so cute. And Curious George is, you know, he's being a little bit mischievous in the kitchen. I mean, think about how any anecdote, this is gonna sound so random. It becomes re it sounds so weird. I broke down now, think about it. Oh, look up Jim Cummings. from iOS capture on or especially into the Textmate era, into the Elements era, into the Drafts era, like my favorite kinds of lists are these com like if I went to run X right now.

Uh about you and the way that you w write lists and uh present information and the way that you think about things and how that influ uh influences how that information is presented. Jillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher. Oh my god, she's so awfully good. It is like little even even uh the this morning when I was watching uh famous you are coveting something and then is this like a Catholic adjacent thing? In retrospect, it's good to have gone to a high school that's rooted in reality. And but not only that, no no no, you also need to do the penance that the priest has given you. It is not like evangelicals where you recognize your sin, but then because you have you have a personal relationship.

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You know, I was remarking to my kid today about, you know, dressing for the job that you want and how like I don't know what job he's dressing for, but he's gonna get it. You should be dressed as so like if you're going to a meeting or you're going to a like your party at your boss's house or whatever, but something where you need to like In the past I I have and but recently, like in in the Trumpish era I've heard also heard the opposite because then you're upstaging someone. Also to do the right thing. Somebody that he's already sort of um I don't really want to talk about him too much, but he um but uh you know he's already not deferential enough. uh investor and VC for our dot com company.

He helped fundpets. You know, you can wear a bathrobe like the trillionaire on Alien Earth. But I don't but it used to it was funny 'cause we both remembered him being like that and like being a not very nice person who was not particularly talented. Oh, you mean like easy accessible investments? All of the sort of the questioning and inve the investigation was ridiculously botched by these provincial police officers. But here's one. neurodiverse and um but like unimpeachably like one of the prettiest people you've ever seen and one of the most charming people you've ever seen Which has three little buttons on it. Well, I it was a little mooky, but I um I looked at myself and I thought I look like I'm in the cast of Alien 3.

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channel on three and then use the the cable box to change the channel. And I really gravely dislike B<unk>Bs to begin with. Right. Sure. And he's English. Like you stand up a little bit straighter and you act a little more, you know, like a grown up. I uh the my grandparents condo in in Florida building right by the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, of course the only uh city No, I think of sick. If you are but well, I'm sure if you're white and don't smell bad, you can just walk up to a Ritz-Carlton bar uh on a beach and be like Tom Peters, he had all those books about, you know, quality, you know, and that's if you've ever heard the story about n the time Nordstrom uh accepted people like servers or whoever working in a high a hoity to place are like so uh doesn't it like suck and like nice Fifteen minutes later, uh, a guy came out.

Like nobody's mad about a glass of water. Uh kids generally have one of two modes at a given time, as probably like all of us, which is like I'm either not thinking about food at all or I'm starving. I try to give people opportunities to do those special things for me. can be so memorable in your experience of something. And it's quite an experience to go there. And, you know, people save up for years to go there once. Um, but like we're so nervous and I'm trying to make the waiter like me, of course. And then I said to Veen, like, oh, what's the matter? That's oh that's what I would do. But he brought out a book and with a to a page. They're required to do that because the numbers show that having people more than once contact you, like make contact with you while you're in a store makes you less likely to shoplift.

I don't think this is fancy. to something that I'm like, oh come on, man. That that's just something I wish I could do. But you let's say experience often is quotes from Rick and Morty. that Jimmy Carter did in Lost in his heart. like, oh no, uh I this might be a crisis of confidence and might be worth uh addressing. i it's like all right, is it because I want the twenty seven guitars because I'm worried about where I currently am as a person and the perception uh pe like the the perception of others Or do I truly care about this and I want to change something or my self-conscious uh about uh my nieces will be up to, you know, it's like I'm waiting for the six Star Wars. Are are you really being the goodies when someone or myself uh is trying to do something like, uh, voice their opinions about Harry Potter and how bad it is, or any sort of Oh no, I don't interrupt you.

like the weird angles probably and I thought so I made a joke about right angles instead that was very funny. at success and you know it's not really reasonable to compare the best of somebody else to the worst of yourself. you know, when you look at I mean it's so hard not to talk about Instagram, but you know, Instagram tends to, for example, tends to present people very much on stage. format for it, but I at one point, let me see if it's uh no, I'm sure I deleted it when I one of my cleanups. delivery on um that's that's so fine I have another glass of Mexican wine. Again, this is i internal, not external. You got Mexican wine in your head right now, eh? Kind of. w the part of not too soon where she's like if then it just goes through where like you did that Um, but th I I don't know, the song one is interesting to me because a lot of times it will be because I I'm gonna speculate.

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laying it out there and it's very upsetting. I still don't really n understand the difference between jealousy and completely wrong and I'm certainly not gonna look it up. is when you fear, is when you don't want when you want someone else to not have what you have. I'm b I am present. And I will put it in notes, but there is You trying to avoid talking about the Bible or your feelings? Is my feeling. I'll send you an article about it. and not thankful enough and all of those things. I was talking to somebody the other day. we got we both knew this this guy, the same VC, um, you know, Sandhill Road VC in the nineties, and he was the lead uh It kinda sounded like the Menards theme song. Brokers and agents, real estate people?

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the nominal milk consumer. Well, I I like you. For three, I don't want to I don't want to blow up their OPSEC uh for this address at Palm Beach. of the uh of of Todd Blanche's tremendous interview with her. Like here. for our apartment when someone watches our cats. uh motto or you know guidance was we are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen. Escalate that to the correct person above them, and then they will stay there with you or help you deal in any way they can. where where where they lived or live, right? And more so uh uh er uh now it's almost literal like the help ended up in some area in and versus the other side of Naples that's, you know, right on the oh God, Gulf of America.

Yes. that often frequent there, but you know, you don't want to say Mr. is basically the same as any sort of small perk that you get at a job because and not only that, you you get tips. the person who comes in, they notice like here's your cookies, blah blah and they notice which cookies you ate and didn't eat and make a note of that. Fascinating. He was one of the servers uh in the like nice kitchen place, but they don't have peanut butter sandwiches. Yeah. It's a really simple one, but you know, when you've got like a especially like a a young child, maybe a baby, you know, maybe a toddler, but really kids of any age, I used to appreciate it so much. when we'd sit down and you know it depends on the kind of place, right?

But um I mean, I'll give you one that's this is s s so seemingly relatively easy. Those that I'm telling that that was five, six, ten years ago. work versus their job, which is how I'm going to be able to do that. So that's not for me. Oh, especially n now, whenever I encounter something that like s someone acting having a negative reaction someone being mean to a waiter. uh making fun of a teenage girl and when someone says something stupid kind of like like Trump that just goes through um my head The that is the second one. Yep, I I don't want a nine volt battery at it or anything. and the animal that the blogging service is named after. what did I call it? Yeah, for well and and for um myself, just you know, r recently um when I'm like, uh, I should I should do this thing.

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So like if if the leader is wearing uh a giant suit and stovepipe pants and a very long tie, you know, you gotta do something similar, you know? you know, be deferential and respectful of of the but basically you need to be dressed at least as well at least as well as the person who's the most powerful person there. online service accessible through telephone lines. And why didn't other European countries have it? Yeah. at the various Jeffrey Epstein properties. Because if you're your words, man. No. The same way you would adapt anything, whether that's your server who's adapting to like, I'm gonna treat this, uh I almost said hen party, that's the English term, I'm gonna treat this uh bridesmaid's party If you can do something nice for them, you prevent all the problems.

you would win my heart is without even asking, you just bring a little basket of crackers to the table. Like, you know, dude, why don't you read the room? Um, because I just keep thinking why. Okay. I think I love that phrase. Yeah, um I I was making a joke about how Ryan Johnson should have uh directed the final Star Wars film Minot J. Uh last on my uh it like internali uh uh internalized things is um F for this this one I do have an example of. I I like music. Um oh featuring uh Francis McDormand's uh castmate, uh William H. It's weird. I have a lot more to say and think about with these things. some of my very delicate and not very interesting insights that I'd like to share. You know, um maybe that could meet that could be me.

Maybe bad, maybe good, maybe whatever. Sorry, I don't argue on the internet. Yeah, d you should get into real estate, you know. Just just uh just as God made me. The upscene, you know what I mean? There's here's what's creepy and a creepy thing that I do. I forgot that. that like coquettishness that made everybody love her. So covetousness is a big Old Testament thing that gets applied, I feel like, in a lot of ways and in a lot of different ways, right? And the but the covetedness you know how like I I'm like such a dick about words? Isn't that what it says? our own Bible. I thought Zelensky ca I thought I see I can't remember I know and he did the sh I yeah, he did the show, but then I thought he Oh anyway I don't know I didn't know.

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close to consciousness and awareness than we realize. for uh for us it says here the portrayal is Jim Cummings. But there must be a voice no Jim Cummings. Tap ITS. Did you not find she attractive? I think about this difference too much. I know. Meaning. Hm. Because the the current events are happening in the I know Chic Chicago and uh well but you know Chicago, big scary and it's uh right J Yeah, right JD and it's like shoulders, that's what they say. Is that something he said? Ugh, he wears his own hat. And um but the number of different kinds of uh incidents involving collisions and injuries is surprisingly high. Old man yells at clouds. Don't discuss your personal problems with me. You would be an incredible Airbnb uh what are they called?

uh snow tires and gave a refund, even though they don't sell snow tires, all those kinds of sorts of he's I think he's the one who popularized a lot of those. Worry uh worry is a strong word. All all the time. And Mitchell says to Webb, Hans, are we the baddies? Like where you've like m my problem is I don't fucking clean and like every scene that I take a photo of and like try to make it perfect and like last night all I wanted to do is post a pretty picture of the moon and I realized people would make fun of You should not compare the worst you should not compare parts of yourself with the best parts of someone else. Um and but what's it is also interest it's interesting to me anyway, because gosh, I always wonder Even monkeys didn't have AIDS in seventy-four.

To like explain that to other people. It's I don't know. The SudgeBucket was right there. And so I think it's two shades of covetousness. Envy a two-person dynamic. weapons like you know how theaters n now have like a PSA don't touch your phone otherwise the theater will burn um Um, yeah, you saw the news. Oh, literal, okay. The the the headline on it for most people is that it's uh produced by Monica Lewinsky. Thank you for uh bringing me milk. So I'd have to say to somebody like, well, I mean a classic one is like the to get the audio, you gotta hit tape monitor or CD or whatever on the component stereo system. So like the the person who's like, you know, very respectfully cleaning your toilet, like if you're confused uh about your Toblarone, they can stop what they're doing.

Never mind. I heard that's better for your teeth. The other, the classic classic, is like somebody sitting there staring at a plate of shitty food and they go, how are we enjoying everything? A little bit. a potential indicator of a midlight crisis, or is this a crisis of confidence? Why skulls? To his cool mom. It's a really good movie. Add to that, just for the sake of understanding what I'm talking about, a very strong memory of a certain smell. I'm I have become curious. Boy, I write down a lot of good stuff. Your teacher was Burger King. So coveting. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

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Because the food critic at one point, and it says pretty good, she also says, You said there'd be fresh bread. 0 Who uh it's his second term. And he would always bring his dog, which as much as people bring dogs everywhere now, it was kind of weird to bring a dog to an office in 1999. Okay, this d I forget that you're not l like exactly LMO adjacent. But like but I would like I would love to be able to hand people something, maybe even just a card that's like, here here's here's your instructions for how to deal with me. This is a b this is a uh or rather I didn't want to send you spoilers, but this manual gave uh m inspired me to write my own And so I just started asking the guy uh questions of like this is really casual.

What what I really enjoy about the hospitality industry in general and my weird adjacent to it, when when you're asking Subtitle of the Wisdom Project, which will certainly change, is uh Everybody Likes Being Given a Glass of Water. Unless you're at a very high-end store, the reason somebody comes up to you at Hot Topic and goes, is there anything I can help you find today while they're folding Doctor Who shirts or whatever Again, I've had my time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For a second, like that's such a nerdy way to call a a pipe or any sort of marijuana thing. I've watched I've watched lots of good videos on that English system they had. Um and he said that the at least uh this is what he said. And I'm like, that's that's weird.

And um there's been some recent stories about him in the last year that are really, really interesting and funny. I quote Rick and Morty a lot. Yes. That's a pun. Oh what's the you forgot about problem other than what it's like what's what's your favorite TV show? It's not funny. But you know all that, right? Like here's here's one. Why are you being like this? This is sort of uh You refer to me only as Mr. And honestly, a lot of what I did at a bus boy was completely skills that were so reusable for being a waiter later on. Oh, that's interesting. It's too long. That's pretty good. Hmm, did I? She's a little wood sprite. Because I like to ask questions. That's what sold me on it because Alien One is phenomenal.

Almost like she had a role in producing this because she was so involved. Proper language. No, it's fucking weird. Do you know what I'm talking about? And Chef Paschetti's like going through the spaghetti water and he pulls out like an egg and a golf ball and a colander and then he pulls out this giant chunk of fromage and goes, a lot of cheese. I think that's the last that's what we're on right now. Whereas like I feel like I would say, I'm so envious of your Porsche, and I'm so jealous of anybody but me having a Porsche You did a funny bit about improv. Remember remember like the Harry Dean Stanton scene? Is there a reason you don't go to see movies? Yeah. Please. Gotta love. You already did the challenge?

For when people have said for us. No problem. He definitely has that vibe in um and you get it to an extent in White Lotus, right? This is another instance of uh when I did an I g I wow, I guess I really didn't know what to say, so I started asking questions. Yeah. I don't have min I don't have many at all. Hmm. Well he's and then a butterfly flies away because he said, Pooh. You know what you said all of the nice th you said of all the nice things I would say about yourself in a rec Diffs episode, and it made me really happy. Because I I would be happy to bring you milk. Uh Epstein House Manual, I have named this, and it is in my Hey everybody, this is your once-in- once a year uh reminder that um every time you get a new device And no, um Of course you are.

Yeah, if you go and watch the TV show called That Mitchell and Webb Look, season one, episode one, the very first sketch is Mitchell and Webb as SS officers in this nighttime battle scene. What goes on should be sampled in a hip hop song. But you would put clips online after you and Billy w had watched it and you're like, this is good. Not for me, but you know, like my deodorant, my shampoo. I am you s you ask questions because for the most normal human reason, which is you're not sure what to say. Cast of Alien Three. I I under I don't like it, but I understand why as our con c culture has gotten more casual and people put their bare feet on the bulkhead of the plane. It was less so in high school because I was lucky enough to go to a high school that was like a little more rooted in reality and uh had fewer pedophiles.

Then you you ask questions because you don't know what to say. Yeah, and there used to be a lot of advice going around about how to dress for things. Was was she an older lady or was this No, no, no. I don't know what that is. Yes. I agree. I think this is just good work. No one I I uh really wanna to to wanna talk to someone who likes not the not likes, but their favorite is the first one. Oh, I wrote it down. Usually. Boy, it was a weird time. Where are you in my here you are the clicking? That's so funny because that came up today. So anytime anytime anybody in the house grates cheese We do have a weird Bible. Sorry, I I have a light that's about to fall on my head, so I just very quickly need to there we go.

I I feel like it would be a constant constant. The the New York financier. You say no problem? Very English. Why don't you tell me about the twelve hundred dollar wine? Another one i that's very recent. Thanks. You do you totally know this guy's voice. That's my weekend. My grandparents l live on the Gulf of America. A lot of the shit she wants is what gets given to the guests. Oh my god, it's been an hour challenge. The first is the intrusive quotes type thing. I wasn't memorizing. Oh my god, I got three more, like just right off the dome. I'm gonna start writing more of them down because even I'm realizing even if they're references, they are m more wholesome Um but no, I'm just trying to just uh sad about current events Yes.

com. Look at those eyebrows go. I'm ex I'm excited to hear why you're very excited about a challenge involving Jeffrey Epstein. What you say is as important as what you do. Wanna hear it? Because it's a trick house. And then sometimes I say thank you to no one in particular. It sounds stupid. Alright. Why am I saying this? Meaning, I'm jealous of that, but the jealousy there means I don't want that person to be with other people or for other people to be attracted to them or whatever. And he just s says words and then Oh boy, yeah. They they take her phone away and they look at her phone and she barely she's so cute. Um But don't look at look what my shades of gray don't I look like I should be in an alien prison colony.

Instead of you're welcome. Um Oh no, I'm I'm done. I sound insane. It's Well because she's a kid? Lots of times. What what what would you like this show to be? Richard to Bicky. Should have uh something like wisdom or like a like a something that when the He says the cutest stuff. Isn't that emo song? I kinda respect the Gideons though. Um one of the first Ubers I ever took probably was coming home from some kind of an event That's your that's your hang up. You bet. Mm-hmm. Um Is it wait, is he kind of Francis McDormand? And oh that was another Yeah. And I want to do that. But I uh uh eh I know I like going to Alamo and stuff like that, but going to the movies that are local, like we got this mall Plus then all the smarts, you know, make it very costly.

That's going on the list. But one of my favorite part there was the bit where we got the wrong bill for the wine. But everything else is. That's for their boss. Like if someone is yelling uh uh like a road rage guy or it I did. But anyways, I just I wanted to say to our listeners, I I hope you will uh continue with this challenge and think about things that are inside your head that are hard to get out. Too long. Well no, doesn't it say don't cover cover your neighbor's ass or his wife? He said it's it was a good idea. Uh he helped fund us. I'm I'm really enjoying it. And so whenever he answered the phone, his name's Richard. French service, like well, I can't get into it. That's very good. I I did the thing and I I looked it up and this was this is actually you're you're right.

Good. Try and anticipate the needs of Mr. I went there with some pals and I was very we were all very stressed out about going there because it's the best restaurant in America. No, for you later. That's how he says that's how he said it. Oh yeah, I don't know Torx Wrenches. Mm-hmm. She was not given a decent translator or a lawyer. I don't have to do that. No one can see that I have a song in my head unless I'm going, hmm, hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Something you they can't see inside your head. And I don't know if that's something he just said to everybody on Tuesday New Wave Nights at the gay bar, but he said it to us. A lot of really good stuff. com money when it comes to documentaries unless you make like twenty episodes on Netflix.

Exactly. Um but I was at uh you g y anyone can go up to the uh turn turns out But but also the Ritz, according to Richard, and this is this is who the uh what's that guy's name? She just makes everybody feel bad. And being me, I was like, I I I don't like fo uh a peanut butter sandwich because I I panicked. You can stick your hands in it if you want. I'm happy. They should have had a better door on the school or stronger windows on the church. I'll think about I'll think of examples of this. Who's Jim Cummings? I got it! Did I forget it? Oh no, and I didn't like it. And he goes, oh geez, I'm sorry, I can't take photos indoors. Mao kind of did that, but I mean Churchill Churchill didn't, you know, and he did in uh his visits to the World War.

And, you know, it wasn't a big tie kind of place unless it was a sales thing. I'm like, you know, like like like for imprint for certain type situation where you you get potholders made that say name of company. Here's a manual about how to please me. You hear that? I listen to music. So you just listened to the to the to the Velvet Underground's third album mostly for the first time all the way through. It d well ts he's he's he is a king and you are servile Yeah. Please Netflix. I have a boys weekend. So I mean, that's that's probably the worst thing he's ever said or done. They couldn't afford Jurassic Salt. Like if if you s you're not seen leaning down and talking to a big thing, or maybe a little bit like a pit table.

Mm-mm, yes. As far as I'm concerned, and he just said it like that sounds like a m again, it sounds like a John Mullaney bit. And you know what I'm gonna say? Good. Because you know you're gonna want to walk around San Francisco with an oven mitt in a bag. So that's probably the pattern. I would have I would say you're welcome because I'd be happy to break it up. Smith. No, partially. Yeah, yeah. He said, The shit the chef asked me to share this with you. It was like private mind movements? It d but it's an inside the brain thing that's hard to talk about, you know? And again, these are the dates are a little weird because regular tasks, great friends. It sounds stupid every time someone says it.

I I wrote down things that I would r before I put these in t in text text expander. If it been on the like uh I bet if it was a certain type of scope and Bill Gates needed that kind of scope, it would still be around. I said, Oh no, remind me. Um, but and I guess I don't remember the pre how famous it was pre Like if you if you if I if I you know what I'm saying? Including some some very upsetting things that happened. That's better than you're welcome. Wait, what you had to do as in like it was part of the agreement? Gotcha. God I love that song. Do you re do you remember what this week's ch challenge was? It's probably a weirder time now, but um I think the Bible's interesting. I I like um I like that movie a lot.

I have not um I haven't formalized this yet, but just to keep it simple, um and it y so, i it would be a very abbreviated version of this or but um you know what we need to do? Alex has talked about it a lot. And they would hate it. Oh my god. So tell me about this distinction. I wasn't, listen, I Merlin, I was learning for my life. There's a lot more things I want to externalize and a lot more things I want to think about. This is one of my favorite kinds of lists, honestly. Hello. Like I was part of the committee. That guy's not okay, man. Like how he was criticizing him because Zelensky as a point of I mean s I don't I don't have that strong of an opinion about Vladimir Zelensky, except that he should do the right thing.

That I knew I someone hello there listeners, can someone make a documentary about the Gideon Bible? And it has extremely detailed I I think it's pretty well done actually, pretty well written for what it is. What's the third one? Ugh, almost famous. It's not a fucking video game. Is it you think it's weird to be attracted to people? You said the thing about him not wearing a tie. The Amanda Knox show is very good. I've got three a little bit in shock that you didn't know about uh or rather had not seen weapons and then just Yes. That's a good one. I think of Naples as being like I don't I maybe I don't know Naples. Fuck you, Todd. It doesn't I don't know if I want to change this, but for now I'm gonna say it doesn't it probably doesn't make sense to always compare the best of other people to the worst of yourself.

Oh my god, things I remember about Cincinnati. When did Trump two point oh become an unironic thing? Can can you guess what happens if he's outside? Why? Well I keep telling you that I figured it out and then you you go into some kind of a fugue state about it. Still? Huh? I think it's gonna be you know, it's a different way of approaching that kind of job. Just always just bring her a glass of water. I don't want this to come off being like, yes, I want all the fancy uh Duchess things. That's the sound uh that's the sound of Hackney and Hackney's a liberal white culture applauding itself. Is that a in the wisdom documentary? Uh I think one of the great children's cartoons, at least that I discovered after being a child.

And the guy saying, as far as I'm concerned, all you new waivers are in purgatory, which I still think about every day. Oh that guy! Yes! That's not so funny. I don't have any feelings. It's such a funny story. What a terribly frustrating story. Do not discuss personal problems with guests. But, you know, now it's just a rental property with a ton of rules. And they don't ask for ID when you're 20 years old. Maddie and I quote Mi Rick and Morty a lot. You put stuff in your mouth. So there's one where let's say, oh, let's say we just got tried delivery from a new cheap Chinese place. No, no. Suddenly, none of 'em have ties. Have you gone to the guest toiletries scope? Shot on my pill. B. Chef Paschetti is a friend of Ted and George.

We don't deserve it yet. I think that's the last uniformly strong season, but yeah. Do you? Oh. No, I uh there's a very funny bit about improv at the beginning of uh There's Alex. But also that you should be in charge, not you know, you're not a private. Hello, hello. I told you, I told you, I used to, my first roommate in San Francisco at the house I'm living in now was the food and beverage director of the Ritz Carlton. I always think of it as like people with boats that aren't that nice. Uh when in instead of um or are we the baddies? That guitar bit. The spaghetti gets soft, the egg gets hard. It's a terrific look. You can't you can't get a can't get a B round till you spend her A round, they'd say.

You'll mainly know Charles Dance, uh Tywin Lannister. If somebody says thank you to you, say thank you, and then you go thank you. That's very true. Right. And a little kid waiting for food can kind of be a drag. Uh no, that's I'm not gonna do any more quotes. Yeah, more so with me, but sometimes with uh with other people. Right, right, right, right, right. She lives at home in a small apartment across the street from the health department. Or increasingly, if you post the animal, a picture of an animal with a mute face, you know what I'm gonna say. They're talking about Far Fargo, one of the best movies. And it's so stupid and I can't stop and I don't want to. Yeah, yeah, the mascot for the for the fast food chain.

I wanted to put down my prediction that I will say here privately, which is that Donald Trump will use this as a basis for sending the National Guard to um Minneapolis-St. It's got all the classic alien elements. No, in the way you'd hope. He had he changed out of his oh god, I forget what it was called. Um I'm aga again like I didn't I didn't make a list or anything. Just because you whoa, just because you can't see people doesn't mean they're not there. Coveting is, isn't that kind of, it's a form of envy, isn't it? No no no. And 'cause it is it's costly, but is boy is it ever worth it? When you walk up, ask about what your presence will do to improve this experience for the people who are getting that experience.

I thought that was the guy from uh Big Bang Theory. Yep. And then, you know, you go back and watch Harry Potter and it's like, oh, that's upsetting. So the more that happens, the more that becomes something he says over and over. Yes. Oh my god, really? Like when we were at you've heard this whole story so many times, but we w so if y'all don't know, there's a place up in Watsonville, um, called the French Laundry, run by a maniac uh called Thomas Keller. I think a lot of people I didn't understand you'd already started. Um I I agree, but more m 60 mostly just because I want to see it's like seeing the sequel to a movie. Baby. Yes, but because you were like, hey, it weapons everywhere. Jesus.

I forget what she said. Jealousy, three-person dynamic, which may which is covetous covetous thruple. You know, you you you deliberately dressed way down and that's the your sort of power thing. I mean there was no like EU. It's it's good, but it's not great. I don't care. Maybe maybe um This is hard to do, Alex. Meaning like we see somebody with all the warts removed, whereas with ourselves all we see is warts, all we see is flubs, all we see is failed attempts. Think about how any like important anecdote that people have heard or you've told over time. And if there was any sort of bonkers Waymo I'm doing everything I can to bring this to you in a way that will not upset you. Epstein, Ms. That's what Harry Dean Stanton says.

Okay. Challenge this week is to externalize something internal. It's Pika behavior, as you say. Huh. Um like, oh, when I close the garage door, I go room. Hmm. It was a pretty easy uh drink. Hur weekly challenge podcast It was just words. Anyways, um, but I I don't know where that stands today. It's kind of a pain in the butt. He said, Yeah, yeah. It needs to be updated because this is from like 2023, whenever it first came out. These days especially it used to be it was all about coziness and doing like a fake B For for I was gonna say for you. Yeah, I mean run all the Run X's. I know. It's so funny this morning I was um apropos of nothing, because I started watching Alien Three again the other night and like you know, I think David Fincher does a lot with what he's given.

I mean, say what you will about Thomas Keller, he's a weirdo. God, that was Wasn't that funny? And like that's still so memorable to me. I like I like I like I like Back to the Future and I like the second and third movies like as a unit, but I like them differently from the way I like the first one. You love you. And of course, Madeline goes, pretty good Uh maybe does Porky Pig? So the beginning of the Winnie the Pooh uh collection that we used to watch all the time at the end. Or did or did I realize that if you want all the words, you should get a dictionary? I keep saying this over and over in a way that I'm sure comes across as creepy. You texted right before it got on the Zoom call and like, oh no no, no.

I respect the Gideons though because it's not really so much I don't think exactly about religion, it's just about having Bibles, which I think is kind of nice. Matt's working, so I'm doing uh Alien 2 and 2. She tells me those jags they have are 200 grand. Uh but it's it's funny to me only because I've never thought that in my head. Like it is y th there might be more assholes, but y if you're I'm not one of the people who sees something and uh they're like, I want to put that in my mouth. It's a distinction between what and what. Hmm. I should listen to that. Yeah, and then in because and more so that as a child I found other people attractive. Unoptrusive. Like if we're o away. Well that was that was no good memory though.

Don't know why. But I love it when somebody like brings me like a big water. Right? Uh I I when I see a person's f phone case, I just I wish that I could bend it a little bit in half to see what it feels like. I get it. And if it's a distraction, is it a wholesome distraction or an unwholesome distraction? Mm-hmm. I sing a lot of music. It's really good. Title. I should tell you in the after show about a funny thing that happened. Um he would come in and I all I can remember very specifically is he was dressed very casually. This is gonna be in mind too. I'm Todd, I'm gonna be your server. I was listening to an old episode of Hit Parade. But if you put pischetti into the pot, it makes it floppy.

Jesus Christ. Oliver Minatel, uh Brazilian former footballer. And as it happened, I'm wearing two different MacWeldon garments. Um because it's all it's all guys with shaved heads in prison, including the great Charles Dance. Because well, if you aren't actu if it wasn't welcomed, the task is a little bit more. Pay attention to how you speak to Mr. And every time he answered the phone, he go, Hello Richard As his way of saying hello, you're speaking to Richard he go, Hello Richard. They'll be very disappointed. I interrupted you. Uh but you know, there's one where Curious George, it's it might be called is it called Curious George goes to the restaurant, but it's one where Chef Pischetti is trying to get ready for this fancy food critic to come to dinner.

Oh yeah, Martin Luther was onto this a pretty long time ago. Don't you think p some of that comes out of how much he loves doing, you know, events where he gets a reaction from the audience? Personality. Uh I didn't say that wasn't the c the case and y you know it I made some kind of like periodic timeline joke. Here's the different kinds of salt and you know da da da and I was like, that's so fucking cool. You're you're you're a walking pika problem. Uh he did a a speech talking about the having a crisis of confidence sort of in And it's still at this age of whatever I am, and I really need to remember what my age is. But I used to have a thing in Datum where I'd write down the song that was in my head.

His face goes, hmm, hmm. Oh this guy's totally he's the um he's the he's the um is it Bugs Bunny that he does? I've already done the introduction. Or if it's a waiter, they say not a problem. She is terrific in it. And I think sometimes it's just it butts up against policy. But Pat Pat and Max on their podcast uh had an episode where one time Pat Rothfa said something. Well then I'll get thrown out of school. Wonder how long I've had Mexican wine in my head? I mean, one is that I think sometimes we have more going on in our mind. Oh, I should, you know, uh real estate's a contact sport. I live in the walls. It's just also the people just suck. And it's a manual given to everybody who's on staff.

Like you shouldn't have had to thank me in the first place. Maxwell, and their guests. But like bringing uh crackers, I admittedly, now as a waiter, I also know crackers are kind of a pain to clean up after babies have been there. The Pika. But no matter how clear it is or unclear it is, it can sometimes still be really hard. But very worthy of being on the list. I think now we're really getting into the dregs. Do that hello again, please. But they don't relate to covetousness. That like some of those shirts needed a wins or not. Is that where Alien Three takes place? I'm not gonna look it up. Oh, Susan, here's four hundred dollars. And I cracked some joke that was really stupid. Like Is has this been like your whole life?

When I get back in bed after I urinate and I pull my my my um my heavy blanket over myself, I always go And I think a lot of it's still I don't know. It was fine. You know, people who are going, oh, care and feeding of the introvert in your life. I thought it was confirmed that she created it. Maybe that's because that's maybe that's a comfort food for some people. Well how do you think we got it, Alex? And then I'm like, look at the man with the fucking hat behind the desk with JD Vance who had to take his Products that disappeared. Let's see, I got anti-patterns. Oh, I I am trying to avoid talking about the Bible my feelings. That's where you live. But you know, um that you should Please HBO.

And doing the detailed work of just making someone happy You know, what what some people call self-talk and things like that. Um that but no, but I think w th what happened was when when the war happened, he said I'm gonna wear this military garb until this is over. And, you know, it was it's, you know, whatever. Yeah. The uh the that and I want a Minitel documentary because I know it exists. It would be a welcoming request. You know. Okay, this is unobtrusive is the key. Mm-hmm. But like I I think we spend a lot of our life consuming peoples on stage. That's the problem with a lot of these bromides, you know, is that a lot of times people aren't really thinking about like, you know Like what is the song for Elton John?

It goes back to Zach Krieger. Macy is the narrator of Curious George. And if they think they can see inside your head, that doesn't mean they see the thing that you're seeing, the way that you're seeing it. Well you're not actually upset about that. Yeah, it w it was one of those Because the other options are talk about upsetting. Yeah. He does. Yeah, she specifically wants scope. Excuse me, I don't think you say that anymore. I could be the great curator. I read I'm looking at this woman now and it's very it. I'll have to look it up. I could do this all day. It's like you're taking a little bit of a little bit of a little bit more. I guess I missed the whole Amanda Knox story, but boy is it ever horrible.

Like I don't think it's just like a lame rehash of the alien. What else did I have written down here? I uh I drove you and your Asian girlfriend. We're getting we're getting too deep here. It always is. I don't know, it should be wisdom versus yeah. And sh uh that is my list. I don't know. Remember her looking out the window with her little mask on? What's novel about it to you? But um uh now he's wearing linen. It's pretty crazy. It was fine. Contents include introduction, grooming and guest relations, proper language, answering the phone, um She doesn't want the water, she can throw it in your face. Not and I told you so, and not uh here's what you actually meant. Uh your boos mean nothing.

Number two, I just want people to be happy. But I I my understanding is that envy is when you wish you had something. Um I mean I I my wife is not uh whom I love is not a big going to the movies person. Um would that come up? And I the more I the more years that I think about that phrase, the more meaningful it is. You know about me doing robot hands and saying got that got that. Half the time I hear the word jump, I hear gummy bears jumping here and there and everywhere. Okay that's going on I'm stealing that one. This is not just bullshit. Is it Francis McDormand? And then uh or watch that. Of the random specifically, no I mean I've been keeping random lists in my life for a pretty long time, but in the whole age of And it was just l something was there because it was She was a way too confident lady.

And so we hadn't had a T VO very long. I'm still mad about all of the work that we had to do in Hawaii. I might just use this document. Are you gonna order drinks? Well like that's why that's why when you go into a store and the people come up and keep asking if they can help you, they're not doing that to help you, they're doing that to reduce theft. I get it. Yes. I have one for it that's your fault. This is Do by Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann. I I I w I watched up until McNulty uh became the prince, and then I Yes. W well, what was f really funny about the uh Wow. Can I just point out also in passing that for somebody who had hardly anything to do at all with Jeffrey Epstein, she comes up an awful lot in this.

I'm surprised that the Ritz-Carlton, you know, uh not that this isn't. You've heard that story. Like w when you add another sense to it Um I'm gonna say twenty twenty eight because you know you're pre-production now. But I Uber used to be was it all Lincoln town cars or whatever, the fancy schmancy b thing. And I dunno. But the thing he said is that internally food and beverage director, that's a pretty big deal at the Ritz. So if you post a picture of your baby He he owns an Italian restaurant and he's a perfectionist chef who refuses to sell substandard food. The Wikipedia page is really sparse compared to other, you know, niche tech n networks and sh It does have Charles Dance in it. Like when I'm just walking around, I'll just sing a song.

That's not like a release cycle. Um okay. And uh so it's it's mostly this the standard, but like with a couple a couple little tweaks. Because people love Bible stuff. More jokes aren't funny. Bruhaha, yes. Um, she got railroaded hard. I think stuff like that's neat. And I'm not sure why. The video creation. Because we have these we have these skulls on our caps. It was like three hours long. Which I have to say I do I do to some extent understand. As it happened, I got that driver. Yeah. Well, and I think I I hope that I l live to be above above sixty. Whatever I think it's overused. When you watch uh why am I doing this? And I think, you know, from in the normal like day-to-day vernacular, that's not no not any different.

Do you have a preferred um do you have a preferred version in your church? American beautiful African American women with with the same hat he's wearing. No, they don't make I don't think they make fake women. It sucked. Epstein, Ms. Naples. whoever's room, so that it just so happens then the guests all get scoped. And at the same time, the way you're ordered to talk to the table, hi, I'm Todd. I get it. When I'm doing something, I'm like, is this something that might be That's the point. Uh I really hope Ryan Johnson's in there. I find it difficult and very strange whenever people I don't know ask me to explain why I'm not doing something. Woo! Not adjacent. And like what's worse is that sometimes I'm an only slightly informed dick about words.

We gave out pot holders with the name of our dot com on it. I know the yogurt murders are very important, but if Minatel murdered somebody, Netflix would do it. No, it's it's that it's that it's connected to a to a it's got it's got uh we got a TiVo. He could never never understand that. A lot, but there are some specific changes, and I wonder if there are specific guests. It's it's just honestly I don't I don't know. Mhm. God. And I'm like, yeah, uh also uh Frances McDormant, she she's great. And then I'd be like, okay, that's a really good idea. Look at that, that's a good list. Uh the uh It's an Amanda Knox thing on one of the things. M uh like like the animal or the b wait, Oh no, we're doing that joke about uh I I call it pika behavior, but you call it pika.

Hello, Merlin Man. So y you're speculating that everybody th didn't realize there'd been a change in the dress code so they had to take off their tie. That comes off as disrespectful or that maybe you're like not a player. She's really and she's, you know, famously Amanda Knox the person is famously like kind of quirky and maybe a little bit Yes. It's like a mile from our house. No problem Host? How we doin' tonight? A lot less cute and very disappointing. And it's a little it's a little bit similar because uh some I've fallen the trap too of Oh God. But isn't that a pretty record? Look at Zelensky with the suit. It's got drippy water and chains. Oh, but mother hmm, mother speaks in code. That reminds me though, speaking of Jeffrey Epstein, I have the first Now that she's she's going to camp in Texas.

That was the cat in Tallahassee that shot on my pillow. Is there da-da-da-da? Um and I'll explain what this means in a second, but but the the thing, the phrase is um But w one there's one where Curious George is trying to find out. The Gideons, man, they're serious. That was funny. Uh except th that's you. So this again, this is a is uh oh oh by the way, I was I was saying the wrong phrase, but the way I'd use this phrase on our 2019 episode similar to this was um Here here's things I uh three things I used to respond to people before I had a text expander for it. Um okay, I'll find out. But it's also, I mean, with that aside Once you've had the opportunity to be in a Wimo, you get this. Um, and uh you know, there's sometimes if you're around if you're around somebody like Hello Richard.

I've only been there and that's kind of where you're f Pew pew pew. That's why it's challenging. It's slightly it's like slightly syncopated and I'll sometimes be turning that over in my head and I'll go, wait a minute I do think it's it's just it's interesting to realize What are my anti-patterns? So I thought that I looked like, oh, I wanted to talk to you about screw worms and make sure you're learning about screw worms. Yes. And they notice what radio station you were listening to. And honestly, I was much further to the other end of the spectrum because of the kinds of places that I that I worked at when I was a bus boy The second one people may not see this, but you're thinking about it is you wanna you wanna finger their case.

Was what we called it. I was not learning for the test. It could be a phrase that's hundreds of years old, but if it's in a certain song, then from now on when somebody says that phrase I have to like sing it. The thing is, I didn't know this. What goes on in your mind? He's a Disney guy. Yeah, that's that's like the normie Protestant and uh several Like those are all different things a server has to respond to. No, no, I'm more you know Well, I I'm not real okay. R right J D? Women we don't listen to? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every single person who works at a writ is empowered to stop what they're doing, to help a guest, until it's escalated to the person who can take care of it. Mm-hmm. Yes. And it was it was a part of of Almost Famous.

Really great episode of Hit Parade on what he calls legacy hits. It is! It it did you sm okay, when you told me that story, w which But I also I think of the smell of like clove cigarettes. Oh god, political buzzwords that people love to say. Why are we calling it Trump Um, this is a good idea. Now we're getting into more modern times, things that need a name. And again, this is this is not this is not King. Northern? People people in movies are it's just no fun. And how to take care of my oh and you know potentially how to take but basically and I downloaded a copy of the manual. You do say yes, mister Dingleberry. Well that's wait, that's guest bathrooms. Oh. Have you figured out yet why I ask questions reflexively?

He's not even asking the question. It was just a televised I I feel like it's it's old fashioned maybe, but it's good advice. But um we were talking about um The sales guys always would get dressed up, but when this particular guy who was a retired basketball player that now was the lead of a And, you know, and you know, all the stuff you're allowed to do and not to do. Maxwell, and their guests. It I Yeah, it is like they have some money, but it's not like fancy. You follow what I'm saying, right? And then it's like, ah put that in the wisdom document because it's really, really fucking good. Huh? Well, okay, and this this is again apropos of several challenges, including this one, is the things that trigger you to think a thought Oh my god.

Yes. You don't cover covet your neighbor's ass. Oh my God. Um but um What would you say if I said thank you for my thank you for the milk, what would you say? I I think we use the same moisturizer. They will do everything that they can to help you. His it it wasn't called his like formal whites, but you know, they And I won't be bummed about it and I won't be looking and I can like focus over here and like I just think little things like that are really nice and But you know, the place is in unimpeachably great. That's what they used to say. No. I have so many ways I sing along with it. Um, you know, but like You're are you making that up? Woo-hoo, woo-hoo. That was Well bad on you. I did look back at my list of uh What else what else is there?

You know, it's it's in a lot of places I don't know. But like my experience there was But mainly it's just our our the entire staff was so made us feel so comfortable there. I could see people thinking it's creepy, but if they if you do it in a low-key way, that's just good service. I don't know, it's probably just me. Because our LMO is in the mission, and so we I take a Waymo to get there. What did you just say? Um but he worked it out. And more so, I'm leaning towards like the Every time our house is very old. Like what is the thing that or like a good one that I thought was very interesting was like Billy Idol. Candy did not die of AIDS unlike three or three. You think it was all date daycon duga?

It's me here. I don't know. Continue? And I think I think we we're ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen. But like in Night Manager, you really get that. Uh also Gilliam Maxwell uses a hard toothbrush. Tell you about some of our You know, I'm in the middle of a conversation here and you know, w so let's pump the brakes. Ah that's so cool Curious George Okay, I think oh god, okay. I'm sorry, I'm still adjusting this light thing. And I think that is a post You're going to give I don't know, I mean I imagine everything differs depending on whether you're working at a chain or a local place and how busy it is and how high end and But that's why there's a floor manager at Applebee's, is because if you if some it's like in uh It is okay.

I see the floor. Because you've re I'm already just Uh-huh. She's uh she was a confident mistress. The crime scene was just totally a mess. Fuck I mean I'm very pleased to help you, Mr. Or, you know, it you could you could also like if you work, you know, I think you should say you're welcome. This is called Household Manual. But I'll tell you one for me. I said something you said something that blah blah blah, Cretaceous salt. Yeah. So yours is is you sometimes think w you wonder whether something that's happening, something that's a problem, something bad is happening, and you're saying And so I was watching that. And you were listening to it because the candy says, right? Okay, kids, let's go.

Oh god, that's gonna be one of those. And I think it's well done. That makes sense. You wanna hear it? But like, I'll tell you the thing that would make me Now you don't have to refill it. Literally. Gotta harden that target. Like maybe all morning? Oh sorry. I'm sure. I uh It drove him crazy that he didn't change the channel like he had for forty years. Like Tiny Dancer is absolutely one of my favorite songs, maybe in the top five God. Yep, yep. Like you could be jealous, I think you could say properly, I'm jealous of my spouse. We had we had um we had an event. I bought my first I'm wearing like a pretty pretty trim like short sleeve undershirt and over that I'm wearing a kind of shirt called a henley.

Uh as What a fantastic movie in so many ways. Oh yeah, neither have I. But like w when's the last time somebody gave you a clean glass of water and like you absolutely it made you mad and you didn't want it. That's what you look like. Okay, so number one on Alex's list of internal things that that the world cannot see In in like the Jimmy uh uh you you know the speech um 'Cause I I It's it's uh Silicon Valley in the late nineties, so I'm wearing cargo pants and some kind of ninety dollar shirt and Is where like we do a lot of mall adjacent things. Oh boy. Yes. Sommelier. That's what I said. Look, yes, I'm very attracted to Elizabeth DeBicke. That season four before that season four, uh that's a really, really good that's when they first introduced Diana and uh Yes, yes.

It's so sharp. Oh I don't know if that's true, but that's what he says. That guy that that guy I'm thinking of, Tom Peters. So is this the first one on your list? I used to keep a list, actually. No, at the end of the um Sorry, now which laps laps lapsing into Matt Smith a little. I mean all that stuff, you know? It's all fake men, right? But in the same way that my my stepfather, who was horrible, could never understand you always leave the T V on That's very exciting. You know? Oh, because words can be different things. And if you go to the wisdom document, there's actually a line about that. They're not fucking around. Like, oh yes, that is a pot, but Uh that's the internet's uh that that's France's internet.

Unobtrusive is the key I can I I made a five page PDF on how to use our TV. I h the the why skulls? And I I think more about things like self-talk because I have the evidence Yeah. And didn't he say I think he said J D and not vice president, which was so funny. Now he's got uh what do they call it? Drippy water and chains. Zobast. I've always loved that. Or or or bread or whatever. Because Well, Okay, but you probably enjoy it. Even if it's I'm not listening to it. You've heard that one before. Leftovers are refrigerated debt. I don't know why I'm telling you this. No, that but it is. You do not say, yeah. Let me go to hers. Um the world's coming at you and you're seeing stuff and you're perceiving Don't let your schoolwork get in the way of your education.

School should be better. I should I should find this one episode. God damn. I don't think you like doing this show. They told us we weren't spending money fast enough. They took it to mean that was a plan to meet later. It is not Well the example I was gonna give is This I feel I Um I I mean She she used to be she used to have a tassel uniform in Tallahassee. And and then like I've seen what makes you cheer. But usually I I think like You were like It doesn't that's just a movie from a couple weeks ago Alex Don't be crazy Hello. And then, you know it's a great word? Like I think it's deliberately, because it's fucking Noah Hawley, it's deliberately touching on But one is true. Like you like, you know, I learned this from a woman in our um getting ready to have a baby class.

Just getting gauging the table and like Directing your um directing your nieces How about this? Hmm. Whether that's big his big beautiful bill or what have you. It's probably j oh really? Yeah. Go on. I've done it. So you probably haven't seen these, right? It's a it's a m what else should you be attracted to as a person Mm-mm. They're safer than people. And that's what I'm saying. Um, when I see a baby, we hey, you tell me, what do I say when I see a baby? I don't have any data on this, but I'll speculate it's that when there's some especially a line from a song Hello. And Um And I like the cast and I love Wendy. It's very uh conservative in the way it moves around. Oh, please. Um like who is this helping?

I don't know. I don't know why that bothers me. Um but It was in France, mostly. It's a robot uh making fun of That's probably not it. Um it's clear what you need to do. Isn't it kind of special? I almost died just now. I would leave so many laminated notes. What are you talking about yourself? Exact exactly. So like when you arrive at a Ritz Carlton back in the day in the 90s anyway. Um and uh I like jokes like that. Uh no, no, I just kinda want to bend it. But one of it is I love Chris Collingwood's Like who knows? Winnie the Pooh jumps off the last letter of Winnie the Pooh This is a good thing. Sure. I always thought that was kind of cool. You heard my dumb joke and then you were cool about it.

Um Yes. Well herring her me and Ghilaine, we use the same moisturizer, if you know what I mean. This is a different cat. I'm well on our break when I'm editing, I'll I'll go and I'll find this episode. Products that disappeared? Well I would say the same thing. Oh, cool. That's so, so upsetting. No, no, no. And the idea of uh like, okay. He was good at basketball, but then he was just a guy with a dog that invested in dog shit, you know. com on it and you give those away to She wrote back and said, Okay, thanks. I'm still mad. I used to have a it was it was not a good What does that mean? Yeah, but but that's you know one of my all-time favorite comics. But what if it's not actually welcome and it is just not a problem?

J. It's been true for years, but like it's not getting any better. I do that three times a day. R Woof. Because I also have a uh a s guide It's so much fun. Let's see, prompt terminal project, Michael Shannon Batman did Seinfeld. Have you ever heard that advice? Like when you talk to Tom Hiddleston and he's your It it is kind of fulfilling. Some it but it's not a good thing. Yeah. Abrams, or I wish that he had. But I'm in my uh upper fifties, I think. Oh, thank you. Because as we've learned from all the sex men Of course, Ms. Um but the Like they will they are meant they're Like a pit boss in a casino where it's your job to make sure that n A, of course nothing's getting stolen. Wow. Um whenever someone makes a sound similar to Oh my god, this list is so long.

Your main your main assignment is Alien Earth. And you definitely feel that when you're in the car. No, I said speaking of Jeffrey Epstein. At least it was. Yeah. And then you sent me uh Velvet Underground album, which I just never heard. And As Uh yeah, I know what you mean though, but the regular pointy collar That's how they get a little bit of a problem. Yeah, I see here, uh the tel Telital was an interactive video techs. And And so we just started calling him Hello Richard. What was I singing this morning? No Oh my god, what a good record. It's just no oh yeah. Sometimes I will say to people, you know, um, could I get a big water? I uh We didn't do a very good job this week, but I enjoyed it.

Oh, Tigger. I understand everybody needs to do their thing Would you like to be my helper and remind me of what I've said? Winnie the Pooh, who does he do? That's from 2017. All right. And I think jealous I'm glad you're watching Alien Two, that's really cool. Personality. That is just goes through my head. I forget and then suddenly I'm like, forget this. But there's like three different things that Madeline and I still say to this day. Fuck You forgot about the wire Okay And I was like alright. He says well hot water is interesting, because hot water makes some things hard and some things floppy. About who? God already knows about your sins, but you're the one who has to admit your sins. And we'd hear we'd hear uh we'd hear Richard from the next room saying uh cause Beaujolais had taken a shit.

That is delightful. That's so funny that I Well, what's the problem then? But then the crazy one is sometimes and I'm sorry I don't have a specific example, although I'll certainly think of one. I appreciate that. You know what I mean? Dingleberry. It's really true. Does he actually like teach you that or is that just something you kind of picked up, do you feel like Why do you think that? And then if you're gonna Marriott, you also get that Mormon book. Oh you get to meet Newt. But just like, you know, it's like I said, like the you know, the the a current the current um You thought it was patient zero? That makes a ton of sense. I spent like a day cleaning that place. It was two years in a row.

I did not say good or bad, by the way. I walk around and I go, got that, got that. Uh I think it encourages people. He'd rather close the restaurant for the day if he's not satisfied with the food of that day. There you go. We don't talk about the Bible enough on here. And I also like, I want to say, because I'm guessing Guillaine probably wrote this Here's the easy version, I think. It's so well done. This famous one today is Tigger. Because it's it's in, you know, the commandments. If you don't know what to say to someone, either say nothing or ask a question. It's not like Boca Ratone or something. I think I I I I like a soft toothbrush. But more so Yeah, I keep a list of all my products that I'm mad disappeared.

Like sometimes it feels like he's like, Oh, I I just said something and Uh and it's really the actress and it is wonderful. It's even got like it's even got clinky chains and dripping. This is circa two thousand one I know you know this, but maybe our listeners don't. No. That's what's upsetting to me You could say like, oh, I'm so jealous of your Porsche. I mean you could get people Ferrerochets, but they'd probably rather have MMs. Holy shit. Something really weird. My pleasure. I'll just And I'm like, ah really But like but knowing that there's a little kid at the table and Ever. Like I I should get uh this is uh like the twenty-seven guitar problems. And and not even because she Like I try to I'll see you later Like uh uh uh Emma Watson Like what if you went in and your teacher was Burger King?

What? I want to see what Oh, that's even better. And the idea is like Now that's I think that's after John Cale left. POTUS Oval. This week's challenge, externalize something internal. It is no trouble at all. Did you ever watch The Night Manager with Tom Hiddleston? It was the best rush considered the best restaurant in America. I I've seen clips that No, I'm gonna start writing you know what? You know everybody at the writs, this is true. Right, right. Like You know, I gotta say, if you're gonna go to a high school Like they're way safer than people. His cat Beaujolais used to shit all over my stuff. You ever see how the band plate on? Like uh industry events, you know, like trade shows and stuff.

She goes to the movies probably once a year. Why do you say that? Therein lay the problem. And I hope you like Alien Earth. And uh I hope I can't quote Pat, but I think what he was saying was Paul. The And he he said they're sort of internal But w Like where like you prefer a blonde who's good at algebra. Um, but n I'd love that. Mm-hmm. Um What we're talking about here is something that's And now she's going to camp. Oh so you were you actually watching Did I hear you crack you're watching Almost Famous? Yeah Not in 1974 she didn't. He used to be the secretary of the Navy. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. With pleasure. Okay. You ever see that movie? I'm gonna keep writing these down. You can guess the first one Oh yes, it is Okay.

I don't know. I I don't want to oversell it. Um This is not just some like And he's like He's a big Navy guy. I was been watching the I just raw transcript