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[techno music]
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Hey, good morning.
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That's a pretty dress.
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Oh, thanks.
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Just heading out to go
check on my tomatoes.
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You mean to that dirt
patch around the corner?
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Looking like that?
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Who are you trying to impress?
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Is it that obvious?
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Only to me.
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Well, her name is Malkie.
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I met her at the community
garden last week.
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We talked for over an hour
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"about our love of 'Black Seaman"
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It's an heirloom tomato.
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Of course it is.
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Yeah, she's not my usual type.
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She's got this, like,
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all natural, kind of kinfolky vibe.
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Not a stitch of makeup.
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Can you tell that I'm wearing makeup?
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Uh, nope. You nailed
"trying not trying."
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♪ ♪
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Good morning, Bryce.
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What are you doing at my desk?
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Personal workspaces are
antiquated and constricting.
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At all my other companies, we hot desk.
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- Hot desk?
- Yeah.
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Everyone can sit wherever they want,
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whenever they want.
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It fosters equality,
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which in turn boosts productivity.
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I love it.
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Becky. Get out of Diana's office.
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But I'm hot desking.
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No, you're not. Get up.
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Get out. Now.
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- Does Charles know about this?
- Of course.
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Anyone bringing me on as an investor
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knows that I'm a disruptor.
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A world without hurricanes, Liza,
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is called a desert.
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Liza. Coffee.
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- [sighs]
- You know what, Diana?
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At all my other companies,
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everyone gets their own coffee.
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Well, at this company,
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Liza gets mine.
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Hierarchical structures
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are a real drag on productivity.
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French roast. Black.
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Don't get the coffee, Liza.
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Liza, I'm not kidding. March.
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- Stay, Liza.
- Go.
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- Sit.
- No... okay, you know what?
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I was going to get myself a coffee,
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and while I'm there, I'll just...
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I'll get two.
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Easy peasy.
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[playful music]
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♪ ♪
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[electronic music]
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- Synced and corrected by martythecrazy -
- www.addic7ed.com -
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♪ Ah-oh, ah-oh, oh, oh ♪
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He's abrasive.
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He looks like he just
came from the Shire.
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He is completely dismissive
of all of our traditions,
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and I don't care if
he's "on the spectrum."
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If he refers to me as
"that older lady in marketing"
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one more time,
I will smother him in his own hoodie.
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Bryce could help Empirical adapt
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in ways that we might
not think of ourselves.
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Just pretend he's from
a different culture.
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A culture you respect.
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Like the Japanese.
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- If that works for you.
- Or the Swiss.
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I mean, the Swiss are delightful.
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Yes, so they are.
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Is that you?
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Oh, I was, uh,
photographed at the opera benefit.
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So funny how those
things make the paper.
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You look great.
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And so does your...
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girlfriend?
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Let's just say it's new.
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Well, she is...
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really something.
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She is, isn't she?
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♪ ♪
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Loving your hat today.
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[gasps] Malkie, hi!
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- Hi.
- Oh, I love yours too.
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It's actually from my
boutique on Bedford.
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You have a boutique on Bedford?
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How cool. What an amazing location.
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Yeah, I'm... I'm lucky.
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- I have a pretty loyal clientele.
- Mm.
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Hey, I took your gazpacho advice,
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"and I blended the 'Black Seama"
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with some 'Eva's Purple Balls.'
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- Delicious.
- Right?
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They're so, like, juicy.
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They blend well with almost anything.
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There's something on your arm.
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Oh.
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Got it.
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- Just a tomato leaf.
- Thanks.
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So, um, I'm actually
hosting a little event
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at the boutique tomorrow night
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to celebrate our new spring line.
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Would you want to come?
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I'd love to.
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I'm always in the market for a new hat.
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[both laugh]
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- Great.
- Yeah.
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Okay, I'll see you then.
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Yeah, bye.
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Bye.
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♪ You won't let her down ♪
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♪ Give it up ♪
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♪ ♪
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[gunfire]
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[tires screeching]
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Why are the interns playing
"Grand Theft Auto"
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in the conference room?
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[scoffs] Another Bryce disruption.
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Want to complain about him over lunch?
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I can't.
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I have a sort of date.
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What? That's great.
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Lauren set me up on one of the new
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dating websites, HandleBar.
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Is that the one for girls
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who want to date guys with mustaches?
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No, that's Bristled Bros.
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HandleBar is for people
who can't handle a bar
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- on a first date.
- Oh.
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He's really cute, right?
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Wha... cute? He's gorgeous.
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I don't know if I've ever
seen eyes that green.
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I know.
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It's got to be FaceTuned, right?
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- Uh.
- I just want to be realistic.
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You know what they say.
"Hope for the best.
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Brace for a serial killer."
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Text me in case I need
an excuse to bail.
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You got it.
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♪ Wah-ooh, ooh ♪
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So wait.
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You have your own imprint?
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[phone chimes]
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That's incredible.
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- _
- No, I... I think what
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you do is incredible.
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[phone chimes]
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I can't imagine what it would
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be like to produce segments for Vice.
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Have you been to Afghanistan?
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- Yeah, uh...
- [phone chimes]
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- A few times.
- Wow.
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- [phone chimes]
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You know what? I'm sorry.
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I'm putting this on silent.
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Me too. Airplane mode.
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Um, are you friends
checking in on you too?
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[laughs] Yes.
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This is so embarrassing,
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but I kind of thought your picture
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was just too good to be true.
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[laughs]
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I thought the same thing.
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Never would've imagined you'd
be even prettier in person.
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Look, I know that I'm supposed
to wait a couple of days
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before I ask you out again,
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but I'm over those kinds of games.
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I know I want to see you again.
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Is tomorrow night too soon?
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No. Not at all.
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I...
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I would love that.
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♪ ♪
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Liza.
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Apparently, Charles has a new somebody.
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I need you to find out everything
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about this Radha woman.
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Yeah, I met her at the benefit.
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She seems nice. I think she works
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for some kind of foundation.
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That's it? I need more.
Her Facebook is set to private.
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Oh, they're never really private.
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I think there's something
called Stalkbook.
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I'll check it out.
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Stalkbook? Really?
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Is there no end to the madness?
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Last week,
someone suggested I get Cormac McCarthy
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on Snapchat. The man is 83.
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I know it's overwhelming,
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but it's not as hard
to adapt as it seems.
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Oh, not to you.
You've been texting since birth.
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Uh, right.
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But even so, I mean,
it's less about learning new things
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and more about letting go of old things.
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What do you mean?
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Uh, take voicemails,
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for instance.
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Maybe stop leaving those.
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They're now officially
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considered annoying.
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Interesting. What else?
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Email is on its way out.
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Texting is best,
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the less punctuation the better.
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Horrifying. Go on.
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Oh, and don't say "dot com" anymore.
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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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And maybe think about
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softening your look.
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I mean, just a little.
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Like, be...
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comfortable.
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I am comfortable.
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♪ ♪
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- Hey.
- Thanks.
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[indistinct conversation]
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He picked up the tab
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and paid for my Uber back to the office.
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If this is dating, dating is easy.
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Whoa. He is, like, Hemsworth hot.
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Wait, is he a Hemsworth?
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Wait, wait. Are those color contacts?
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- Oh, my God.
- No.
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And in person, they twinkle.
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Oh, that explains the
lens flare on the photo.
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What is the catch?
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Is he a himbo?
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No, he went to Columbia.
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Theater major?
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Engineering plus dual minors
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in film and Russian literature.
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- Strong combo.
- Russian literature.
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So he's boring.
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He's been to North Korea.
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Self-centered?
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A mansplainer?
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Bad dresser? Cargo pants?
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No. Totally on fleek.
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Okay, no. Two things.
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Never say "on fleek" again, all right?
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That is beyond over.
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More importantly,
you might have a big problem here.
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He... he sounds like a
diamond in the rough, okay?
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And you cannot squander
a diamond in the rough,
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not in these dark dating times.
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All right, you put
him on the back burner
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and find yourself a bad pancake first.
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What's a bad pancake?
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It's this theory that the
first guy that you date
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after a serious relationship
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is doomed to be the bad pancake.
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Yeah, because the first
pancake always gets burned.
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The bad pancake never turns
out to be a real relationship.
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- It's predestined to fail.
- That's not true.
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I mean, technically,
I'm Liza's bad pancake.
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- I'm still here.
- Yeah, and you two
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are the picture of a
stable relationship.
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Listen, guys,
Max is throwing a party tomorrow night
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with some of the other intern
friends from his hospital.
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You guys should all come,
and bring Lucas, all right?
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I want to check him out for myself.
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Maybe a quick hello.
271
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Okay, we'll stop by.
272
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Uh, is Max okay?
273
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Oh, yeah, no, no, no. He's fine.
274
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Yeah, he's just power napping.
275
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His shift started at 4:00 a.m.,
276
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and then he had to stay
late to reattach a thumb.
277
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Wait, do you guys want
to see a pic of the thumb
278
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before they reattach it? No.
279
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- Yes, yes!
- Yes.
280
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[rock music]
281
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♪ I paint my nails the
color of my heart ♪
282
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♪ ♪
283
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♪ Dressed to the nines ♪
284
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Hello.
285
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Something's different about you.
286
00:08:50,288 --> 00:08:52,789
Can't quite put my finger on it.
287
00:08:53,826 --> 00:08:55,852
Oh, you can put your finger on it.
288
00:08:55,877 --> 00:08:58,040
- Liza.
- [snaps fingers]
289
00:09:03,429 --> 00:09:04,350
Well?
290
00:09:04,375 --> 00:09:06,652
I love the jeans. You look...
291
00:09:06,677 --> 00:09:07,820
Not the jeans.
292
00:09:07,845 --> 00:09:09,399
Radha. Details.
293
00:09:09,424 --> 00:09:11,776
Oh, she's the director
294
00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:13,930
of the Rockefeller Repositioning Fund.
295
00:09:13,971 --> 00:09:15,454
So she's a do-gooder?
296
00:09:15,479 --> 00:09:16,514
On a vast scale.
297
00:09:16,539 --> 00:09:17,791
She speaks four languages,
298
00:09:17,816 --> 00:09:20,026
law and environmental
studies degrees from Yale,
299
00:09:20,051 --> 00:09:22,108
plus she has a line of
cruelty-free handbags.
300
00:09:22,133 --> 00:09:23,606
Where do the profits go?
301
00:09:23,698 --> 00:09:26,607
Back to the worker-owned
factory in Pakistan.
302
00:09:27,236 --> 00:09:28,177
Kill me.
303
00:09:28,202 --> 00:09:29,638
But you know what?
304
00:09:30,059 --> 00:09:31,941
I bet she's just the bad pancake.
305
00:09:31,966 --> 00:09:32,852
The what?
306
00:09:32,877 --> 00:09:34,050
It's this theory that
307
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the first person you date
308
00:09:35,206 --> 00:09:36,372
after a serious relationship
309
00:09:36,397 --> 00:09:38,169
is doomed to be the bad pancake
310
00:09:38,194 --> 00:09:40,465
- because the first pancake...
- Always gets burned!
311
00:09:40,490 --> 00:09:41,197
Yes, definitely.
312
00:09:41,222 --> 00:09:42,682
She is definitely the bad pancake.
313
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Yeah, so...
314
00:09:44,324 --> 00:09:46,398
[stammers]
315
00:09:46,563 --> 00:09:48,189
So the jeans.
316
00:09:49,029 --> 00:09:50,218
Too much?
317
00:09:50,243 --> 00:09:51,576
You look great.
318
00:09:51,694 --> 00:09:53,193
Totally on fleek.
319
00:09:53,218 --> 00:09:54,484
What? Fleek? I'm...
320
00:09:54,509 --> 00:09:55,975
I'm not familiar with that phrase.
321
00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:56,908
Should I be?
322
00:09:56,933 --> 00:09:58,138
Actually, don't bother.
323
00:09:58,163 --> 00:10:00,035
- I think it's already over.
- Mm.
324
00:10:00,060 --> 00:10:00,991
♪ ♪
325
00:10:01,065 --> 00:10:02,898
So far, the "P is for Pigeon" reviews
326
00:10:03,076 --> 00:10:04,742
are lining up nicely, and we...
327
00:10:04,767 --> 00:10:07,768
I've been invited to Summit,
and I have to prepare a speech.
328
00:10:07,793 --> 00:10:08,996
We're in a meeting, Bryce.
329
00:10:09,022 --> 00:10:11,356
Right,
I should have prefaced with "excuse me."
330
00:10:11,380 --> 00:10:13,049
- So the speech needs...
- What is Summit?
331
00:10:13,074 --> 00:10:15,333
It's an elite tech conference.
332
00:10:15,358 --> 00:10:16,979
The most elite in the world.
333
00:10:17,005 --> 00:10:18,124
They want to hear my ideas
334
00:10:18,148 --> 00:10:19,991
for reinventing an old media company.
335
00:10:20,016 --> 00:10:22,950
By "old media," you mean books?
336
00:10:22,975 --> 00:10:24,233
Yes. Metadata-wise,
337
00:10:24,258 --> 00:10:25,646
interactive digital books
338
00:10:25,671 --> 00:10:27,429
are clearly where the
industry is heading.
339
00:10:27,454 --> 00:10:29,185
When people read "The Lion,
the Witch, and the Wardrobe,"
340
00:10:29,210 --> 00:10:30,766
they want to actually enter Narnia,
341
00:10:30,791 --> 00:10:32,350
not just read about it.
342
00:10:32,413 --> 00:10:35,214
Isn't that what your imagination is for?
343
00:10:35,239 --> 00:10:37,635
I always hated the end of
"The Great Gatsby," you know?
344
00:10:37,660 --> 00:10:39,243
We could issue an interactive version
345
00:10:39,268 --> 00:10:41,025
where readers decide that
Gatsby never gets shot
346
00:10:41,050 --> 00:10:41,949
in that pool.
347
00:10:41,974 --> 00:10:43,737
Spoiler alert.
348
00:10:43,762 --> 00:10:44,761
Why are you even here?
349
00:10:44,786 --> 00:10:46,414
Meetings are open to everyone now.
350
00:10:46,439 --> 00:10:50,406
Okay, so you and your
esteemed protégé over there
351
00:10:50,431 --> 00:10:51,698
think it would be a good idea
352
00:10:51,723 --> 00:10:55,410
to rewrite one of the most
iconic American classics
353
00:10:55,435 --> 00:10:56,495
of all time?
354
00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:57,535
Why not?
355
00:10:57,560 --> 00:10:58,843
We could even deconstruct
356
00:10:58,868 --> 00:11:00,353
the entire e-book model, you know?
357
00:11:00,378 --> 00:11:01,838
Make all of Empirical just an app.
358
00:11:01,863 --> 00:11:04,306
Wow, that's really, uh, depressing.
359
00:11:04,331 --> 00:11:05,497
It's also not going to happen,
360
00:11:05,522 --> 00:11:06,721
but I am doing my best
361
00:11:06,746 --> 00:11:09,014
to appreciate your enthusiasm, Bryce.
362
00:11:09,039 --> 00:11:11,362
If I may resume.
363
00:11:12,115 --> 00:11:14,277
"P is for Pigeon" was released today,
and...
364
00:11:14,302 --> 00:11:15,668
It won't sell.
365
00:11:15,693 --> 00:11:18,261
Metrics indicate people
actively dislike pigeons.
366
00:11:18,286 --> 00:11:20,543
It is not literally about pigeons.
367
00:11:20,568 --> 00:11:23,753
It is a metaphor
368
00:11:24,076 --> 00:11:26,549
based on the life of Martha,
369
00:11:26,574 --> 00:11:29,530
the world's last known
living passenger pigeon,
370
00:11:29,554 --> 00:11:31,787
and you would know that,
371
00:11:31,813 --> 00:11:33,712
if you had ever bothered
372
00:11:33,737 --> 00:11:35,104
to read it!
373
00:11:36,589 --> 00:11:37,988
Excuse me.
374
00:11:38,013 --> 00:11:40,340
[playful music]
375
00:11:41,524 --> 00:11:43,679
I offended them. Why?
376
00:11:43,704 --> 00:11:45,327
Uh, you just said you wanted to reduce
377
00:11:45,352 --> 00:11:47,352
a century of literary distinction
378
00:11:47,377 --> 00:11:48,599
down to an app.
379
00:11:48,670 --> 00:11:50,604
And that's offensive, how?
380
00:11:50,629 --> 00:11:53,193
[techno music]
381
00:11:53,885 --> 00:11:55,885
♪ ♪
382
00:11:55,910 --> 00:11:57,176
Do you think actual books
383
00:11:57,201 --> 00:11:58,988
could really become just a novelty?
384
00:11:59,013 --> 00:12:00,047
Truth?
385
00:12:00,072 --> 00:12:01,645
Yeah, probably.
386
00:12:01,867 --> 00:12:02,944
Look at newspapers.
387
00:12:02,969 --> 00:12:04,603
Yeah, and quaaludes.
388
00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,874
No, no, not for you. Stop.
389
00:12:06,899 --> 00:12:09,099
It's for Maggie's new
garden crush, Malkie.
390
00:12:09,124 --> 00:12:12,425
I'm telling you, she
and I have this amazing
391
00:12:12,450 --> 00:12:14,543
unspoken erotic spark.
392
00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:15,707
She invited me to this party,
393
00:12:15,732 --> 00:12:17,832
and I'm bringing my famous Bolognese.
394
00:12:17,857 --> 00:12:19,321
It's an aphrodisiac.
395
00:12:19,346 --> 00:12:21,342
The secret is the sausage.
396
00:12:21,367 --> 00:12:23,600
I thought you guys avoided sausage.
397
00:12:23,625 --> 00:12:24,624
[both laughing]
398
00:12:24,649 --> 00:12:26,154
[phone chimes]
399
00:12:27,195 --> 00:12:29,122
- _
- Oh, we got to go.
400
00:12:29,147 --> 00:12:31,095
We have a doctor's appointment.
401
00:12:31,121 --> 00:12:32,848
Doctor's appointment.
402
00:12:32,873 --> 00:12:34,411
- Good luck.
- Bye. I'll save you some.
403
00:12:34,436 --> 00:12:35,865
[upbeat music]
404
00:12:35,890 --> 00:12:37,284
♪ Let me hear you say ♪
405
00:12:37,309 --> 00:12:38,385
♪ ♪
406
00:12:38,409 --> 00:12:39,401
Mm.
407
00:12:39,427 --> 00:12:41,639
[loud conversation and cheering]
408
00:12:41,664 --> 00:12:43,013
Ah, ah! There you are.
409
00:12:43,038 --> 00:12:44,403
Where have you been?
410
00:12:44,428 --> 00:12:45,884
The nitrous tank is already kicked.
411
00:12:45,909 --> 00:12:47,956
Hey, guys. Want a shot?
412
00:12:48,437 --> 00:12:50,112
[laughs]
413
00:12:50,137 --> 00:12:51,674
- Oh.
- Nice.
414
00:12:51,699 --> 00:12:53,606
Hey, this is Liza. This is Josh.
415
00:12:53,631 --> 00:12:54,854
Hi, I'm Lucas.
416
00:12:54,878 --> 00:12:56,208
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
417
00:12:56,233 --> 00:12:58,255
So, uh...
418
00:12:58,281 --> 00:13:00,859
- everyone here is a doctor?
- Or sleeping with one.
419
00:13:00,884 --> 00:13:02,084
Looks like somebody needs a refill.
420
00:13:02,109 --> 00:13:03,576
Yeah, we should go put
these beers in the fridge.
421
00:13:03,601 --> 00:13:04,345
Okay.
422
00:13:04,370 --> 00:13:05,211
[whispering] He's so cute.
423
00:13:05,236 --> 00:13:06,215
[whispering] I know, right?
424
00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:08,461
Okay, okay, that beautiful man
425
00:13:08,486 --> 00:13:09,847
is soul mate material.
426
00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:11,158
Dude, you cannot date him right now.
427
00:13:11,183 --> 00:13:12,364
Your mixed-up widow brain
428
00:13:12,389 --> 00:13:14,354
is going to eff it the eff up.
429
00:13:14,379 --> 00:13:15,208
Oh, my God.
430
00:13:15,233 --> 00:13:16,627
I will, won't I? Damn it.
431
00:13:16,652 --> 00:13:18,852
Okay, put that quality
batter back in the fridge
432
00:13:18,877 --> 00:13:20,438
and find a bad pancake.
433
00:13:20,463 --> 00:13:22,299
You know what I'm tired of?
434
00:13:22,324 --> 00:13:24,642
All these... these
wannabe MILFs blaming us
435
00:13:24,667 --> 00:13:26,196
for their inability to get preggo.
436
00:13:26,221 --> 00:13:27,588
Like every day.
437
00:13:27,613 --> 00:13:28,654
Wannabe MILFs?
438
00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:30,450
Yeah, yeah, these hot older women
439
00:13:30,475 --> 00:13:32,730
who want to be moms but have no idea
440
00:13:32,755 --> 00:13:34,381
their ovaries are basically toast.
441
00:13:34,406 --> 00:13:36,586
I tell all my patients
over 35 to wake up
442
00:13:36,612 --> 00:13:38,620
and smell the biological clock.
443
00:13:38,774 --> 00:13:39,956
Want a hit?
444
00:13:39,981 --> 00:13:41,556
Oh, yeah.
445
00:13:42,092 --> 00:13:43,425
Hey.
446
00:13:43,450 --> 00:13:44,683
There you are.
447
00:13:44,718 --> 00:13:46,986
I was scared you were hiding from me.
448
00:13:47,838 --> 00:13:51,191
Were you hiding from me? What is it?
449
00:13:51,216 --> 00:13:52,949
If it's something I did or said...
450
00:13:52,974 --> 00:13:55,743
No, oh... oh, my God, you...
you didn't do anything.
451
00:13:55,768 --> 00:13:58,157
You're... great.
452
00:13:58,182 --> 00:14:01,916
It's just that I am finally
getting back on my feet
453
00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:04,111
after an intense relationship
454
00:14:04,136 --> 00:14:06,334
that ended in an even more intense way.
455
00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,719
We've all had bad
endings to relationships.
456
00:14:08,744 --> 00:14:10,152
Trust me.
457
00:14:10,432 --> 00:14:11,870
Not like mine.
458
00:14:11,895 --> 00:14:13,089
I know that we just met,
459
00:14:13,114 --> 00:14:16,390
but I think that we
could have something,
460
00:14:16,415 --> 00:14:21,142
and my friend has this bad
pancake theory where...
461
00:14:21,167 --> 00:14:22,965
I know the bad pancake theory.
462
00:14:22,990 --> 00:14:24,434
I have sisters.
463
00:14:24,459 --> 00:14:25,976
Wait a second.
464
00:14:27,412 --> 00:14:29,223
I think I understand.
465
00:14:29,248 --> 00:14:32,889
You don't want me to be the bad pancake.
466
00:14:33,173 --> 00:14:34,309
Is that it?
467
00:14:34,334 --> 00:14:36,467
I get it. You need some time.
468
00:14:36,492 --> 00:14:39,162
- I can give you that.
- Really?
469
00:14:39,187 --> 00:14:41,218
You don't meet girls worth
waiting for every day,
470
00:14:41,243 --> 00:14:43,291
so when you do,
471
00:14:43,316 --> 00:14:45,261
you wait.
472
00:14:45,787 --> 00:14:48,131
So what you're saying is,
473
00:14:48,156 --> 00:14:51,405
when a woman, like, turns,
I don't know, say, 40,
474
00:14:51,430 --> 00:14:53,802
the chances of her getting pregnant are,
like, what?
475
00:14:53,827 --> 00:14:54,456
Cut in half?
476
00:14:54,481 --> 00:14:55,904
More than half, brah.
477
00:14:55,929 --> 00:14:57,252
Once you hit 35,
478
00:14:57,277 --> 00:14:59,015
- shit starts to break down.
- Really?
479
00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,041
That's why I'm shooting
mine out in my 20s!
480
00:15:02,066 --> 00:15:04,439
Uh, yeah. Getting pregnant in your 20s
481
00:15:04,464 --> 00:15:06,104
is like catching a cold.
482
00:15:06,129 --> 00:15:08,694
Wow. Hmm.
483
00:15:10,468 --> 00:15:13,469
[string music]
484
00:15:13,494 --> 00:15:17,958
♪ ♪
485
00:15:26,776 --> 00:15:28,038
Maggie.
486
00:15:28,063 --> 00:15:29,173
- You made it.
- Hi.
487
00:15:29,198 --> 00:15:30,775
- Come in.
- Wow.
488
00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,620
Um, it... it's not what I expected.
489
00:15:33,645 --> 00:15:35,065
Ooh, uh...
490
00:15:35,090 --> 00:15:37,090
buying this. Love it.
491
00:15:37,148 --> 00:15:39,373
Yeah, my store specializes
492
00:15:39,398 --> 00:15:42,098
in stylish clothing
for the modest woman.
493
00:15:42,123 --> 00:15:43,818
Mostly Orthodox Jewish women.
494
00:15:43,843 --> 00:15:45,130
Right.
495
00:15:45,154 --> 00:15:47,273
[stammering] Yeah, I mean, of course.
496
00:15:47,298 --> 00:15:50,040
Oh, this sauce looks amazing.
497
00:15:50,065 --> 00:15:50,999
What's in it?
498
00:15:51,023 --> 00:15:53,526
Oh, it's, um... It's a sausa...
499
00:15:53,552 --> 00:15:56,755
You know, it's a bad batch.
500
00:16:01,536 --> 00:16:02,843
Are you okay?
501
00:16:02,868 --> 00:16:05,657
Mm, fine. Yeah, great.
502
00:16:06,723 --> 00:16:08,147
I have a confession to make.
503
00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,038
Um, I must be off my game or something,
504
00:16:10,063 --> 00:16:12,692
because I kind of missed a few things.
505
00:16:12,899 --> 00:16:14,375
I thought you were gay,
506
00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,075
not Orthodox.
507
00:16:16,542 --> 00:16:19,574
Well, why can't I be both?
508
00:16:19,742 --> 00:16:21,909
I'm what you might call...
509
00:16:21,934 --> 00:16:23,415
an Orthodyke.
510
00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,741
[upbeat music]
511
00:16:29,185 --> 00:16:30,903
Is that medical grade?
512
00:16:30,928 --> 00:16:32,783
Chemo wing at the hospital.
513
00:16:33,463 --> 00:16:34,540
Oh, my God. Amazing.
514
00:16:34,565 --> 00:16:35,553
What?
515
00:16:35,578 --> 00:16:37,432
Uh, "P is for Pigeon" was just nominated
516
00:16:37,457 --> 00:16:38,645
for the Man Booker Prize.
517
00:16:38,670 --> 00:16:40,775
- Is that good?
- Yes.
518
00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,996
It's one of the most prestigious
awards in publishing.
519
00:16:43,021 --> 00:16:44,231
Amazing, babe. Congrats.
520
00:16:44,256 --> 00:16:46,023
Thank you. It's all Diana's doing.
521
00:16:46,048 --> 00:16:47,515
I have to call her.
I'll be right back, okay?
522
00:16:47,540 --> 00:16:48,473
All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
523
00:16:48,498 --> 00:16:50,133
Oh, my God.
524
00:16:50,158 --> 00:16:52,746
[phone vibrating]
525
00:16:55,447 --> 00:16:57,272
It's late. What did you do?
526
00:16:57,298 --> 00:16:58,654
Are you sitting down?
527
00:16:58,679 --> 00:17:00,271
Liza, please.
528
00:17:00,296 --> 00:17:02,440
Okay, well...
529
00:17:02,850 --> 00:17:04,450
It was what?
530
00:17:04,555 --> 00:17:06,277
The... the Booker?
531
00:17:06,302 --> 00:17:07,591
Are you sure?
532
00:17:07,616 --> 00:17:09,892
Uh, well, how did you find out?
533
00:17:10,466 --> 00:17:13,085
No, no, I don't have Google Alerts.
534
00:17:13,110 --> 00:17:15,551
Perhaps my assistant should set it up.
535
00:17:15,938 --> 00:17:17,940
Okay, well, um...
536
00:17:18,002 --> 00:17:20,946
thank you for informing me.
537
00:17:20,971 --> 00:17:23,052
[playful music]
538
00:17:23,077 --> 00:17:25,711
[cheers quietly]
539
00:17:26,731 --> 00:17:28,843
Thank you for being so cool.
540
00:17:28,868 --> 00:17:30,301
I'll be thinking about you
541
00:17:30,326 --> 00:17:32,138
the entire tram ride home.
542
00:17:32,198 --> 00:17:33,513
Tram?
543
00:17:33,538 --> 00:17:36,704
Yeah, uh, I live on Roosevelt Island.
544
00:17:36,730 --> 00:17:39,096
You live on Roosevelt Island?
545
00:17:39,121 --> 00:17:41,173
Like, you live there. Full-time.
546
00:17:41,198 --> 00:17:43,371
Uh, yeah.
547
00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:44,285
I actually... I...
548
00:17:44,311 --> 00:17:45,982
I bought my place there.
549
00:17:46,007 --> 00:17:48,233
- I got a great deal on it.
- Bought.
550
00:17:48,258 --> 00:17:49,846
Did you just say you
live on Roosevelt Island?
551
00:17:49,871 --> 00:17:51,437
Like... like, you...
You live there, live there?
552
00:17:51,462 --> 00:17:52,721
Wasn't it a leper colony?
553
00:17:52,745 --> 00:17:54,012
Is it true there's a curfew?
554
00:17:54,037 --> 00:17:55,599
Do Ubers even go there?
555
00:17:55,625 --> 00:17:57,521
Roosevelt Island. Oh,
my God, I was wrong.
556
00:17:57,546 --> 00:17:59,021
He... he is your bad pancake.
557
00:17:59,046 --> 00:18:00,921
In fact, he is the perfect bad pancake.
558
00:18:00,946 --> 00:18:02,642
Okay, don't you think
that we could work some...
559
00:18:02,667 --> 00:18:03,967
Girl, are you fully registering?
560
00:18:03,992 --> 00:18:05,462
[whispering] He lives
on Roosevelt Island!
561
00:18:05,487 --> 00:18:06,666
[whispering] Oh, my God.
562
00:18:06,692 --> 00:18:07,754
You're right.
563
00:18:07,779 --> 00:18:09,264
That's my bad pancake.
564
00:18:09,289 --> 00:18:10,654
Tram slam him.
565
00:18:10,679 --> 00:18:12,365
Then you come straight home.
566
00:18:12,390 --> 00:18:14,982
[hip-hop music]
567
00:18:15,007 --> 00:18:18,761
♪ ♪
568
00:18:19,008 --> 00:18:22,237
♪ Go hard, go hard,
go hard, go hard ♪
569
00:18:22,262 --> 00:18:23,913
♪ Drop it, now stop ♪
570
00:18:23,938 --> 00:18:25,527
♪ Where you at? Who you with? ♪
571
00:18:25,552 --> 00:18:26,511
♪ Where you from? ♪
572
00:18:26,536 --> 00:18:28,396
Well, that was unexpected.
573
00:18:28,421 --> 00:18:29,620
[laughs]
574
00:18:29,645 --> 00:18:32,094
You are all over the place,
575
00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:33,205
and I like it.
576
00:18:33,230 --> 00:18:39,570
♪ ♪
577
00:18:39,906 --> 00:18:42,326
Lucas, I'm sorry, but...
578
00:18:42,523 --> 00:18:44,474
I'm not getting off the tram.
579
00:18:44,499 --> 00:18:46,836
What? Why?
580
00:18:46,861 --> 00:18:47,796
Wait.
581
00:18:47,821 --> 00:18:50,402
Is this because I live
on Roosevelt Island?
582
00:18:50,426 --> 00:18:52,433
You think I'm the bad pancake.
583
00:18:52,458 --> 00:18:54,676
No. Maybe.
584
00:18:54,701 --> 00:18:56,248
Oh, my God. Okay, yes.
585
00:18:56,274 --> 00:18:57,173
I'm so sorry.
586
00:18:57,198 --> 00:18:58,664
It's really not that bad here.
587
00:18:58,689 --> 00:19:00,522
It's like the Ile
Saint-Louis of Manhattan.
588
00:19:00,547 --> 00:19:02,314
There's even talk about
getting a Whole Foods.
589
00:19:02,339 --> 00:19:04,005
I got a great Mexican place by me
590
00:19:04,030 --> 00:19:05,283
that also serves sushi.
591
00:19:05,308 --> 00:19:06,739
[upbeat music]
592
00:19:06,764 --> 00:19:08,136
[tram bell rings]
593
00:19:08,192 --> 00:19:09,996
♪ ♪
594
00:19:10,020 --> 00:19:12,252
[mouthing words]
595
00:19:12,278 --> 00:19:15,982
♪ ♪
596
00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,923
Hey, do you want a Xanax?
597
00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:19,465
What? No.
598
00:19:19,490 --> 00:19:20,773
Where did you get a Xanax?
599
00:19:20,798 --> 00:19:22,342
Some drunk neurologist
600
00:19:22,367 --> 00:19:23,993
gave me some party
favors on the way out.
601
00:19:24,018 --> 00:19:24,953
[laughs]
602
00:19:24,977 --> 00:19:27,499
I had no idea doctors were so chill.
603
00:19:27,524 --> 00:19:28,892
Yeah.
604
00:19:29,890 --> 00:19:31,634
Uh, so what was, um...
605
00:19:31,659 --> 00:19:33,651
What was with all the
pregnancy questions?
606
00:19:33,676 --> 00:19:34,860
What?
607
00:19:34,885 --> 00:19:36,430
I don't know, babe.
608
00:19:36,455 --> 00:19:38,231
I'm just curious, I guess.
609
00:19:39,645 --> 00:19:42,896
Hey, why did you decide
610
00:19:42,921 --> 00:19:44,348
to have Caitlin so young?
611
00:19:44,373 --> 00:19:46,480
I didn't exactly decide.
612
00:19:46,505 --> 00:19:49,167
I guess you could say I caught a cold.
613
00:19:50,012 --> 00:19:52,632
And it was the most wonderful
thing that ever happened to me.
614
00:19:52,657 --> 00:19:54,035
[laughs]
615
00:19:54,802 --> 00:19:57,482
You ever think you'd catch a cold again?
616
00:19:58,639 --> 00:20:00,562
I don't think so.
617
00:20:02,404 --> 00:20:04,314
I'm still getting over the first one.
618
00:20:04,339 --> 00:20:05,780
♪ ♪
619
00:20:05,804 --> 00:20:08,100
♪ You're hopeless in love ♪
620
00:20:08,521 --> 00:20:11,414
[upbeat music]
621
00:20:11,439 --> 00:20:14,034
♪ ♪
622
00:20:15,004 --> 00:20:16,203
Oh, Bryce.
623
00:20:16,228 --> 00:20:20,275
I have something you can
talk about at your Summit.
624
00:20:21,259 --> 00:20:22,925
"P is for Pigeon"... You know,
625
00:20:22,950 --> 00:20:24,494
the book you said no one you read...
626
00:20:24,519 --> 00:20:27,338
Has been longlisted for
the Man Booker Prize.
627
00:20:27,363 --> 00:20:28,317
[applause]
628
00:20:28,342 --> 00:20:30,610
The Booker? Oh, my God, Diana.
629
00:20:30,635 --> 00:20:32,356
- That's fantastic.
- Isn't it?
630
00:20:32,381 --> 00:20:33,886
No one at Summit will care about that.
631
00:20:33,911 --> 00:20:36,956
People at Summit might not care,
but I sure do.
632
00:20:37,271 --> 00:20:38,962
Congratulations.
633
00:20:39,420 --> 00:20:40,796
Thank you.
634
00:20:40,821 --> 00:20:42,837
Everybody, congratulations.
635
00:20:42,862 --> 00:20:46,615
Bryce, I've been thinking
about your ideas for Empirical,
636
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:47,872
and I think you're wrong.
637
00:20:47,906 --> 00:20:50,093
I doubt that. I'm rarely wrong.
638
00:20:50,118 --> 00:20:51,451
Wait, wrong about what?
639
00:20:51,476 --> 00:20:53,734
The future of this company, of books.
640
00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:57,093
I believe great literature will survive,
641
00:20:57,118 --> 00:20:59,418
because we need great stories.
642
00:20:59,443 --> 00:21:02,064
I can't help it. I'm
a hopeless romantic.
643
00:21:02,089 --> 00:21:03,615
Like Don Quixote.
644
00:21:03,641 --> 00:21:05,681
Yeah, hopefully less delusional.
645
00:21:05,705 --> 00:21:07,271
You are delusional if you can't see
646
00:21:07,296 --> 00:21:10,384
that it's time to either evolve or die
647
00:21:10,409 --> 00:21:12,233
like an extinct pigeon.
648
00:21:12,258 --> 00:21:14,605
My disruptions are
gonna save your company.
649
00:21:15,062 --> 00:21:18,488
Rewriting Fitzgerald
is not a disruption.
650
00:21:18,655 --> 00:21:20,511
It's a desecration.
651
00:21:20,933 --> 00:21:22,735
Well, I'm not gonna
invest in your company
652
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,461
if you aren't gonna listen to my ideas.
653
00:21:24,486 --> 00:21:25,838
Well, then...
654
00:21:26,477 --> 00:21:29,157
maybe you shouldn't
invest in our company.
655
00:21:30,735 --> 00:21:32,188
Then congratulations
656
00:21:32,213 --> 00:21:34,190
on rendering your company nugatory.
657
00:21:34,431 --> 00:21:36,273
I'll have my lawyers contact yours.
658
00:21:37,173 --> 00:21:42,662
♪ ♪
659
00:21:44,215 --> 00:21:46,360
Hey, I just want you to know
660
00:21:46,385 --> 00:21:48,335
that what you just did back there
661
00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:51,694
is what makes Empirical extraordinary.
662
00:21:51,823 --> 00:21:54,739
It's why I'm so happy
to be working here.
663
00:21:54,764 --> 00:21:55,943
Thank you.
664
00:21:56,178 --> 00:21:58,270
I appreciate that.
665
00:21:59,476 --> 00:22:02,147
I just hope I didn't talk myself
onto the brink of bankruptcy.
666
00:22:02,172 --> 00:22:05,175
[laughs] Well, me too,
obviously, but...
667
00:22:05,429 --> 00:22:07,485
you followed your heart,
668
00:22:07,701 --> 00:22:09,602
and that's what's important.
669
00:22:09,775 --> 00:22:12,414
Yeah, well, sometimes I can be impulsive
670
00:22:12,439 --> 00:22:14,576
when I'm following my heart.
671
00:22:14,788 --> 00:22:18,137
♪ Don't know which way it will go ♪
672
00:22:18,162 --> 00:22:20,988
♪ Take every day as it comes ♪
673
00:22:21,013 --> 00:22:23,809
♪ We'll knock 'em
down like dominoes ♪