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- ♪ MTV ♪
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- I want to think
that you've changed.
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Charles obviously does.
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- When it comes to him,
I'd rather save my ass
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than my face.
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- If you're teaching a bunch
of college students,
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I don't think these tweets
came from them.
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- You set me up.
- You're fired!
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You brought this on yourself.
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- My train's on the corner.
- Oh, no, no, no.
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Freddie can take you
anywhere you want.
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Maybe dinner
with a friendly book lover?
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- You dated Clare.
- We broke up last month.
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- It dropped today.
- Oh, my God!
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Our little incubator,
it's taking off!
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- Hey, what are you doing
with that sign?
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- Maggie Amato's
been cancelled.
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[upbeat music]
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♪ ♪
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- Hi.
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- And the caterpillar emerges
from her chrysalis,
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a beautiful butterfly.
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- Not now, I've been up since
4:00 a.m.
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- What are you doing back
there?
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- Well, I built a dark room.
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You know, this whole
cancel Maggie Amato business
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gave me an idea for a new show.
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- Hey, that's great.
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- I think it could be,
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but, no gallery wants
to rep me now.
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So I'm showing at
the East River Bar,
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you know, in that side room
people go to piss
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when the bathroom line
gets too long.
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- Well, hey,
Charles didn't wanna publish
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one of our Inkubator authors,
so we got her into "Vulture."
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Each week, a new chapter
comes out,
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and people are going crazy
for her.
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I know it's--
it's not the same, but--
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- Even when the bathroom line
isn't long,
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people still go in there
to piss--
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and vomit.
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- Well, you have to show
your work--
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even in a bar that stinks
of piss and vomit,
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because that's what artists do.
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- Yeah.
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Well, at least you'll be there,
right?
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- I'ma have to
check my calendar.
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[upbeat music]
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- ♪ Hey, hey, we got soul ♪
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♪ Oh yeah, we got soul ♪
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♪ Hey, hey ♪
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♪ Hey, hey ♪
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- 57 comments on Dylan's
chapter,
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and they're all positive.
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- Um, 58.
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- Okay, this one is just
an emoji of a bowl.
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Do you think it means
bowled over?
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- No, eating it up.
- [gasps]
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- You guys, these people fell
in love hard.
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Ugh, look at you.
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Withholding the chapters,
teasing the readers--
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I'm seriously triggered,
and seriously impressed.
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- I mean, it is a total
mind game.
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It's like, we hooked up,
and it was hot,
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but I want to take it slow.
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- Yeah, it's like a friendly
hug goodbye,
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but then you lean your hips
forward
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just enough to graze it.
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- Ew, Liza, you nasty.
- I know, I'm nasty.
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[laughter]
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- Good morning.
- Good morning, hello.
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- Is this the girl that came
out of your Inkubator night?
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- Sure is.
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- It's good.
- Yeah. Do you think
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maybe we should bring her in?
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- Can I get a Y to the E
to the--
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- No, it's still not something
we would publish.
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- Well, someone wanted
to publish her.
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- And let people read her work
for free.
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- Well, sometimes content
is for free.
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That's what Inkubator
is all about.
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- And Dylan's next book might
be worth some money,
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so, we're just helping her
get there.
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- But I also need you
to get to work
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on books that people
will actually...
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pay to read.
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- Excuse me.
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[funky music]
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♪ ♪
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- Hi, me again.
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Do you know
Susan Abbott?
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- Yeah, of course,
she's the food writer
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married to Jonah Rothchild--
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he's one of
my favorite authors.
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- Well, Susan and Jonah are
coming in today
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to meet with me.
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- Jonah left FSG?
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- No, he's still there,
and Susan is still with
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Harper-Collins, but, they're
doing a book together
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and they want a new publisher
for the joint venture.
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- Wow.
This could be a get.
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Jonah has a Pulitzer.
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- And Susan ha
two James Beard awards,
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we worked really hard
to get them in here--
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since I figure
it's a book people
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will actually pay to read.
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- Um--
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would you mind if I joined
the meeting?
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- It's your company, you can do
whatever you want.
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[upbeat music]
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[phone chiming]
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♪ ♪
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[phone ringing]
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[ringing continues]
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♪ ♪
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- Okay, so, first an
unsolicited tick pic,
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and now a FaceTime call
with no warning?
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- I thought it was
a fun surprise.
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- No!
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In fact, most people would
consider this, like,
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a terrorist act.
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- Well, I need a social media
etiquette class.
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Or, maybe a personal tutor?
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- I don't tutor.
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- Do you go to hockey games?
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- Why,
did someone cancel on you?
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- I have season tickets,
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you are the only person
I've asked,
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but if you want to invite
people, I have a box.
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- Oh, wow.
[laughs]
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I'm surprised you didn't send
a pic of that.
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- Of my box?
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Even I know that's
at least date two or three.
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- [laughs]
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I'll see you there at seven.
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- Perfect.
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[upbeat music]
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[sighs]
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- A notable food writer
and a guy famous
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for his literary fiction
decide to write a spy novel.
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How did that happen?
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- Well, our first date,
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we saw
"Three Days of the Condor"--
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- Yes we did.
- At the Film Forum.
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And afterward, we went back
to his place,
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he pretended to be
Robert Redford,
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I was Faye Dunaway.
[laughter]
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- We love the spy genre
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is the point, I hope,
of that story, right?
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- Have you two ever
collaborated before?
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- No, we were wiser
in our youth.
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- Yeah, well, we d--
we've always helped each other,
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but collaborating was
a different beast.
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- It could be worse,
you could be broken up
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and working together.
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We published Charles'
ex-wife's book.
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That was tricky.
- I thought that book
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went pretty smoothly,
considering.
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- Hm, well, I was the one
who edited it,
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so, I have a different take.
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- I'll bet.
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- So, who would we
be working with?
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- Me.
- Me.
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- Or, both of us.
- Yeah,
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That could be fun.
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- We both have multi-book
contracts with, y'know,
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publishers and we want to make
an informed decision.
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- We actually have
a lot of interest,
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so we decided to do
a bake-off.
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- Here are
the first two chapters.
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- Just take a look,
see what you think.
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- By tomorrow.
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- Uh, we'll make it work.
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- Well, then, you passed
the first test, look at that.
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The second is if we like
your notes, so--
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- And if we do, it'll be
a double date.
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- [chuckles]
- I'm kidding.
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- I know.
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- That went well.
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Um, maybe we can dig in
after lunch?
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- Yeah, I'll make copies.
[laughter]
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- Lo cracks me up.
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- Yeah, I was trying to hold
the elevator door
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for Quinn and he dumped my
sweet greens and um--
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crushed my hand, but it was
pretty funny, so--
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- Lo?
- Um, short for Lauren.
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It's a nickname, and Quinn
gave it to me, I like it.
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- Who was this "it's so
important we have to
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move our lunch meeting with"?
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- Jonah Rothchild
and Susan Abbott.
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- [gasps]
Susan Abbott was here?
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Oh, my God, her book
"Bread Soup:
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A Winter In Milan"
changed my life.
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- I know, same with me.
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- Yeah, it's the reason I only
masturbate with olive oil.
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- Okay, different for me.
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- So, I moved our lunch
to 1:30.
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What time is it now?
- Um--
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- Ooh, nice watch, sir.
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- If you want accurate time,
you get a watch made in Geneva,
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and if you're very lucky,
you get one as a gift.
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- It is 1:12.
- [laughs]
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- I'm gonna go grab my coat.
- Okay.
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All right, get in here.
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I can't tell
if he likes the watch.
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Is it too flashy?
Not flashy enough?
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And what does it say about me
that I was the first one
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in the relationship
to give a gift?
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- My advice?
- Yeah?
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- Don't overthink it.
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- I mean, maybe gifts just
aren't his thing.
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Like, he didn't even get Liza
a ring when he proposed.
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- He proposed?
Like a proposed marriage?
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[both laugh]
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- Is that a joke?
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- No, I mean, I kind of
wish it were,
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but she--she obviously
said no, so--
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- [inhales sharply]
- Okay. Bye bye.
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- Hi.
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[upbeat music]
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♪ ♪
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- I had a great time.
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- Ugh, me too.
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- You don't sound happy
about that.
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- Well, I was kind of hoping
I was gonna have
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a horrible time and get you
out of my system.
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- [scoffs]
- [laughs]
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I'm not really looking for
complicated dating situation.
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- It's not a complicated
situation.
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Claire and I ended things
amicably,
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We just--we weren't a match.
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And yes, of course, I noticed
how beautiful you were
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the first time we met.
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But I swear I didn't have
one impure thought about you.
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Uh, until you yelled at me
about my books,
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which,
weirdly turned me on.
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- And it was a full month
after Claire and I broke up.
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I love Claire, and I
love Claire's daughter--
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- Shh.
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[sentimental music]
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♪ ♪
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Ah!
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God. Jesus, Lauren.
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- Are you sneaking around
with Zane?
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- No.
- Okay, well,
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you're sneaking around
with someone.
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- I am not sneaking.
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I went out with a guy,
and it's nothing,
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and if it turns into something,
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I will let you know.
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- Boundaries, okay.
Not quite sure why
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best friends need those,
but fine.
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[sniffs]
You made out.
254
00:09:41,145 --> 00:09:43,757
- [gasps]
Do not sniff me.
255
00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,238
Alexa,
turn off the lights.
256
00:09:49,023 --> 00:09:51,068
[chiming]
257
00:09:51,155 --> 00:09:53,375
- Okay, literally,
keeping me in the dark.
258
00:09:53,462 --> 00:09:54,419
Cute.
259
00:09:54,506 --> 00:09:57,379
[jazzy music]
260
00:09:58,902 --> 00:10:01,252
- These two have such
distinct voices,
261
00:10:01,339 --> 00:10:03,211
but they weave together
seamlessly.
262
00:10:03,298 --> 00:10:04,691
- I know.
263
00:10:04,778 --> 00:10:06,518
- It speaks to their talent.
264
00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:09,173
- It probably also speaks
to a good relationship.
265
00:10:09,260 --> 00:10:10,784
It's like that saying,
266
00:10:10,871 --> 00:10:13,395
"a good marriage is like
a casserole,
267
00:10:13,482 --> 00:10:18,095
only those responsible for it,
knows what goes in."
268
00:10:18,182 --> 00:10:20,445
- The old casserole saying,
269
00:10:20,532 --> 00:10:21,751
how could I forget?
- Oh, come on,
270
00:10:21,838 --> 00:10:24,362
I love quotes and sayings.
271
00:10:24,449 --> 00:10:27,757
I had notebooks dedicated
to them when I was a kid,
272
00:10:27,844 --> 00:10:30,281
and teen and maybe
young adult.
273
00:10:30,368 --> 00:10:32,588
- Wow.
- Stop.
274
00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:34,546
- All this time, I thought you
might have been popular.
275
00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:37,288
- Well, it's never too late to
be what you might have been.
276
00:10:37,375 --> 00:10:39,073
That's George Eliot.
277
00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,598
- That's good.
You believe that's true?
278
00:10:42,685 --> 00:10:43,904
- Yes.
279
00:10:45,906 --> 00:10:47,472
- I think about
finishing my book a lot.
280
00:10:49,170 --> 00:10:51,520
Going upstate and just writing.
281
00:10:51,607 --> 00:10:54,044
But I keep coming up
with excuses not to.
282
00:10:54,131 --> 00:10:56,656
- Well, stop doing that.
- [chuckles]
283
00:10:58,222 --> 00:11:00,485
All right, what do we have
so far?
284
00:11:00,572 --> 00:11:04,141
- So far, I've just told them
what we love about the pages.
285
00:11:04,228 --> 00:11:06,404
- So, maybe we just do that.
286
00:11:06,491 --> 00:11:08,972
And we just tell them
what we love and
287
00:11:09,059 --> 00:11:10,931
what we're excited
to see more of.
288
00:11:11,018 --> 00:11:12,976
- I know, I mean, these are
two professionals.
289
00:11:13,063 --> 00:11:14,935
They're editing each other
as they go.
290
00:11:15,022 --> 00:11:17,589
- Yeah, and I'm sure that they
just want to work with people
291
00:11:17,677 --> 00:11:21,158
they get along with
and who share their vision.
292
00:11:21,245 --> 00:11:23,465
- And that's us.
- Yeah.
293
00:11:25,162 --> 00:11:27,077
We work well together,
you know that?
294
00:11:27,164 --> 00:11:28,905
- Yeah, I do.
295
00:11:30,167 --> 00:11:32,039
- Getting late.
296
00:11:32,126 --> 00:11:34,215
- According to your fancy
new timepiece.
297
00:11:34,302 --> 00:11:37,044
- Yeah, well, you gotta hand
it to the Swiss, they--
298
00:11:37,131 --> 00:11:38,915
Know how to make a watch.
299
00:11:39,002 --> 00:11:42,049
And cuckoo clocks.
300
00:11:42,136 --> 00:11:43,877
- Ha.
301
00:11:45,922 --> 00:11:48,664
- You should go, I can send
the email out for both of us.
302
00:11:48,751 --> 00:11:50,579
- Yeah.
[clears throat]
303
00:11:50,666 --> 00:11:52,407
[melancholy music]
304
00:11:52,494 --> 00:11:54,409
- Here, I'll just--
305
00:11:54,496 --> 00:11:58,021
- ♪ So sad, so sad ♪
306
00:11:58,108 --> 00:12:01,633
♪ Gone and lost the best thing
I ever had ♪
307
00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:05,899
♪ And you know, you know
that I'm sorry ♪
308
00:12:05,986 --> 00:12:08,989
- [sighs]
309
00:12:10,642 --> 00:12:14,037
- ♪ Hey, hey ♪
310
00:12:14,124 --> 00:12:15,952
♪ Hey ♪
311
00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:18,650
♪ ♪
312
00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:22,002
♪ Hey, hey ♪
313
00:12:23,394 --> 00:12:27,355
- Hey, Miller,
you had breakfast?
314
00:12:27,442 --> 00:12:29,226
♪ ♪
315
00:12:29,313 --> 00:12:33,187
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
316
00:12:33,274 --> 00:12:34,841
♪ Hey ♪
317
00:12:34,928 --> 00:12:36,494
- Look at us,
318
00:12:36,581 --> 00:12:38,801
couple of OGs with our plain
cake donuts,
319
00:12:38,888 --> 00:12:41,978
no frills, no fuss, just
getting down to business.
320
00:12:42,065 --> 00:12:44,938
- What is the business you want
to get down to, Quinn?
321
00:12:45,025 --> 00:12:47,375
And I actually asked for
sprinkles, but they were out.
322
00:12:47,462 --> 00:12:49,769
- Bummer. Look, I'm gonna
be honest with you.
323
00:12:49,856 --> 00:12:53,337
My experience with
relationships is not great.
324
00:12:53,424 --> 00:12:55,209
They tend to go sideways
pretty early on.
325
00:12:55,296 --> 00:12:57,733
- You're kidding me.
- But with Charles,
326
00:12:57,820 --> 00:13:00,562
things are actually
going really well.
327
00:13:00,649 --> 00:13:02,346
And I don't want to do anything
to mess it up,
328
00:13:02,433 --> 00:13:06,176
or get messed up by it,
so I need you to tell me--
329
00:13:06,263 --> 00:13:08,700
Are there any red flags
I'm missing?
330
00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:10,920
If you loved Charles,
and he proposed to you,
331
00:13:11,007 --> 00:13:12,574
then why aren't you married?
332
00:13:12,661 --> 00:13:14,532
- There is nothing wrong
with Charles.
333
00:13:14,619 --> 00:13:16,578
You don't have to worry.
334
00:13:16,665 --> 00:13:18,580
Marriage was just something
I didn't want to do again.
335
00:13:18,667 --> 00:13:19,624
That's it.
336
00:13:19,711 --> 00:13:21,670
- So, you ended things?
337
00:13:21,757 --> 00:13:23,977
- No, he did.
338
00:13:24,064 --> 00:13:25,805
- If there's one red flag
to report,
339
00:13:25,892 --> 00:13:28,677
it's that Charles has
340
00:13:28,764 --> 00:13:31,114
rigid ideas
about how things should be.
341
00:13:31,201 --> 00:13:34,639
- He must have been so
surprised when you said no.
342
00:13:34,726 --> 00:13:36,816
Marriage makes perfect sense
for somebody like you.
343
00:13:36,903 --> 00:13:38,382
Somebody wants to marry me,
344
00:13:38,469 --> 00:13:40,515
they have to sign a prenup
as thick as a phonebook.
345
00:13:40,602 --> 00:13:41,864
- I thought marriage was
something you felt like
346
00:13:41,951 --> 00:13:43,692
you missed out on?
- No.
347
00:13:43,779 --> 00:13:46,608
No, I don't want to disclose
my tax returns.
348
00:13:46,695 --> 00:13:48,610
A legal contract for business,
I understand,
349
00:13:48,697 --> 00:13:50,438
but in the bedroom,
it's such a turn-off.
350
00:13:50,525 --> 00:13:52,266
The minute I am legally bound
to something,
351
00:13:52,353 --> 00:13:53,745
I want to get out of there.
352
00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:57,662
- Not Charles. Marriage is
really important to him.
353
00:13:57,749 --> 00:14:02,058
- Mm, a man in the business
of books likes tradition.
354
00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:04,104
I should have seen this coming.
355
00:14:04,191 --> 00:14:07,977
[sighs] Well, thank you
for your honesty, Liza.
356
00:14:08,064 --> 00:14:09,500
- I guess we're not that
different after all.
357
00:14:09,587 --> 00:14:11,154
- Yeah.
358
00:14:11,241 --> 00:14:12,764
Give or take a billion.
359
00:14:12,852 --> 00:14:15,811
- ♪ Oh it's poison and wine ♪
360
00:14:15,898 --> 00:14:18,770
♪ It's pouring rain
I've got to feel the vibe ♪
361
00:14:18,858 --> 00:14:20,816
♪ Oh ♪
362
00:14:20,903 --> 00:14:22,600
- Ready to get your booster
shot today or what, baby girl?
363
00:14:22,687 --> 00:14:24,907
- I'm not.
Thanks for coming with us.
364
00:14:24,994 --> 00:14:27,823
- Yeah, of course.
[grunt] All right.
365
00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:30,130
Got your jacket--
[laughs]
366
00:14:30,217 --> 00:14:32,219
Where did this thing come from?
367
00:14:32,306 --> 00:14:35,135
- Huh.
I don't know.
368
00:14:35,222 --> 00:14:37,441
- That reminds me of Rob.
369
00:14:37,528 --> 00:14:38,965
- Do I need to shut her ears
for this story?
370
00:14:39,052 --> 00:14:41,271
- He had a box at
Madison Square Garden.
371
00:14:41,358 --> 00:14:43,404
He loves hockey.
372
00:14:43,491 --> 00:14:45,536
we went to games there
all the time.
373
00:14:45,623 --> 00:14:47,799
He even let entertain some
clients from work there
374
00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,018
after we broke up.
375
00:14:50,063 --> 00:14:51,238
He had his good moments.
376
00:14:51,325 --> 00:14:53,457
- Yeah, that, uh,
sounds like it.
377
00:14:53,544 --> 00:14:55,764
- Oh, yeah--except when
he dumps you, right?
378
00:14:55,851 --> 00:14:58,375
- Yeah, that is an excellent
point, you know.
379
00:14:58,462 --> 00:14:59,637
How many good moments
does it take to
380
00:14:59,724 --> 00:15:01,509
make a good person, right,
or a bad person?
381
00:15:01,596 --> 00:15:03,511
I mean, how do you measure--
382
00:15:03,598 --> 00:15:05,034
♪ Measure a life ♪
383
00:15:05,121 --> 00:15:06,296
What do you think, Kels?
384
00:15:06,383 --> 00:15:08,951
- I don't know.
We're gonna be late.
385
00:15:09,038 --> 00:15:10,170
Good luck, Gemma!
386
00:15:10,257 --> 00:15:12,999
- Bye.
- Kelsey?
387
00:15:13,347 --> 00:15:15,262
You are seeing Rob.
388
00:15:15,349 --> 00:15:16,872
And that big old finger
gave you away.
389
00:15:16,959 --> 00:15:18,439
- So what?
390
00:15:18,526 --> 00:15:19,831
Claire and Rob aren't together,
391
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,921
he is an available,
single person.
392
00:15:22,008 --> 00:15:24,010
- And, have you asked Claire
how she feels about that?
393
00:15:24,097 --> 00:15:26,316
- I'm not that close with
Claire, so I haven't.
394
00:15:26,403 --> 00:15:28,101
- Ha, well, had you not fallen
asleep during "Chernobyl,"
395
00:15:28,188 --> 00:15:29,189
you'd know that you don't need
396
00:15:29,276 --> 00:15:30,451
to be that close
to be affected.
397
00:15:30,538 --> 00:15:31,756
- Here we go with "Chernobyl"
again.
398
00:15:31,843 --> 00:15:34,672
- Listen,
Claire is Chernobyl, okay.
399
00:15:34,759 --> 00:15:37,066
And you, you're not Kiev,
you're not even Moscow,
400
00:15:37,153 --> 00:15:38,415
all right, you are a moose,
401
00:15:38,502 --> 00:15:40,548
grazing in a forest
in northern Sweden.
402
00:15:40,635 --> 00:15:42,376
But the break up
is in the air, okay?
403
00:15:42,463 --> 00:15:44,508
And it is travelling.
404
00:15:44,595 --> 00:15:46,336
- Okay.
405
00:15:46,423 --> 00:15:48,904
- And now it's on the grass
that you're eating.
406
00:15:48,991 --> 00:15:51,994
Oh-oh, is that a blister
on your hoof?
407
00:15:54,562 --> 00:15:56,216
- I'll tell Rob
that I can't see him.
408
00:15:56,303 --> 00:15:57,478
- Kelsey, you will text him.
409
00:15:59,132 --> 00:16:02,004
[phone buzzing]
410
00:16:05,790 --> 00:16:08,054
- He didn't say what he wanted?
- No.
411
00:16:08,141 --> 00:16:10,056
But this place is fancy,
so I'm assuming
412
00:16:10,143 --> 00:16:12,493
he's trying to dull our senses
with ambience,
413
00:16:12,580 --> 00:16:15,017
and then pitch us something
we hate.
414
00:16:15,104 --> 00:16:18,151
- Hello, Rose, Dorothy.
415
00:16:18,238 --> 00:16:20,414
So what's our plan?
- We're not ordering food.
416
00:16:20,501 --> 00:16:21,545
- Great,
so I'll get right down to it.
417
00:16:21,632 --> 00:16:23,983
I'll admit, I sent around
that Inkubator article
418
00:16:24,070 --> 00:16:25,419
when it first popped
into my feed
419
00:16:25,506 --> 00:16:27,464
and laughed with some friends,
420
00:16:27,551 --> 00:16:31,077
but it turns out you found
someone special.
421
00:16:31,164 --> 00:16:33,557
I love Dylan,
422
00:16:33,644 --> 00:16:36,473
she's like the Korean Amy Tan.
423
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:37,474
Let's schedule a meeting.
424
00:16:37,561 --> 00:16:39,041
- With Dylan Park?
425
00:16:39,128 --> 00:16:40,912
- No, Dylan McDermott,
what's he up to?
426
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,653
- We don't feel comfortable
talking about
427
00:16:42,740 --> 00:16:44,699
Dylan's career
without her present.
428
00:16:44,786 --> 00:16:46,918
- Yeah, that's why
429
00:16:47,006 --> 00:16:48,572
I wanted to have a meeting
with her.
430
00:16:48,659 --> 00:16:50,313
- She's not taking meetings
with agents.
431
00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,186
- Why?
- Uh, you'd have to ask her.
432
00:16:53,273 --> 00:16:59,192
- I would love to. What--why
are we doing this radio play?
433
00:16:59,279 --> 00:17:02,064
What are you two hiding?
- Nothing.
434
00:17:02,151 --> 00:17:06,721
♪ ♪
435
00:17:06,808 --> 00:17:09,332
- You didn't release a writer
into the wild
436
00:17:09,419 --> 00:17:11,291
without signing her first,
did you?
437
00:17:11,378 --> 00:17:13,380
- No, why would we ever
do that?
438
00:17:13,467 --> 00:17:15,469
- Because you don't have
any money.
439
00:17:15,556 --> 00:17:17,645
Do you not have any money?
440
00:17:17,732 --> 00:17:20,909
Is Inkubator some sort of
literary sweatshop?
441
00:17:20,996 --> 00:17:23,259
- No.
[scoffs]
442
00:17:23,346 --> 00:17:26,523
No, Inkubator--
well, it's a pun,
443
00:17:26,610 --> 00:17:30,179
but, it describes
exactly what it is.
444
00:17:30,266 --> 00:17:31,963
- [laughter]
So you two get
445
00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:34,270
all the publicity for your
little side hustle,
446
00:17:34,357 --> 00:17:36,925
while you lure in new talent
to your stable.
447
00:17:37,012 --> 00:17:38,492
Shame on you both.
448
00:17:38,579 --> 00:17:41,234
My girl needs to get paid.
449
00:17:41,321 --> 00:17:42,365
- Your girl?
[laughter]
450
00:17:42,452 --> 00:17:44,933
- Someone has to
look out for her.
451
00:17:45,020 --> 00:17:48,197
I know I can get Dylan a deal
for that book.
452
00:17:48,284 --> 00:17:51,070
So either you cut me in,
or I'll cut you out.
453
00:17:52,767 --> 00:17:54,290
Too-da-loo, kangaroo.
454
00:17:57,641 --> 00:18:01,689
- [sighs] What an operator.
455
00:18:01,776 --> 00:18:05,649
- We cannot lose Dylan.
- No, I know.
456
00:18:05,736 --> 00:18:07,390
I know!
457
00:18:07,477 --> 00:18:09,131
[upbeat music]
458
00:18:09,218 --> 00:18:10,959
- ♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
459
00:18:11,046 --> 00:18:13,222
♪ Just breaking down
the walls again ♪
460
00:18:13,309 --> 00:18:15,224
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
461
00:18:15,311 --> 00:18:17,835
♪ Tell me I can't ♪
462
00:18:17,922 --> 00:18:24,842
♪ ♪
463
00:18:26,366 --> 00:18:27,280
- Liza.
- Oh, hey,
464
00:18:27,367 --> 00:18:28,498
I was looking for you.
465
00:18:28,585 --> 00:18:29,978
- I was looking for you, too.
466
00:18:30,065 --> 00:18:32,023
Jonah and Susan's office called
and left word,
467
00:18:32,111 --> 00:18:33,677
and I wanted to wait for you
to call 'em back.
468
00:18:33,764 --> 00:18:37,072
♪ ♪
469
00:18:37,159 --> 00:18:38,421
- You're too late.
470
00:18:38,508 --> 00:18:41,207
- No, you're not.
We love your notes.
471
00:18:41,294 --> 00:18:43,339
We want you to edit the book.
472
00:18:43,426 --> 00:18:46,125
- Great!
- That is great news.
473
00:18:46,212 --> 00:18:48,083
- So we're up in Bronxville
during the week
474
00:18:48,170 --> 00:18:50,868
when Jonah teaches
at Sarah Lawrence.
475
00:18:50,955 --> 00:18:52,696
We'd love you to come
for dinner tomorrow night.
476
00:18:52,783 --> 00:18:55,221
- Susan will cook
something fabulous.
477
00:18:55,308 --> 00:18:58,659
And, you know,
we can talk specifics.
478
00:18:58,746 --> 00:19:00,487
- Uh, I think we can
manage that.
479
00:19:00,574 --> 00:19:03,011
- Yeah, uh, we'll see
the two of you tomorrow.
480
00:19:03,098 --> 00:19:04,752
- Great.
- Yeah.
481
00:19:06,362 --> 00:19:08,016
- We got it!
- Oh, we got it.
482
00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:09,496
- Oh!
483
00:19:11,367 --> 00:19:14,414
- Uh, that might cost us
everything that we have,
484
00:19:14,501 --> 00:19:18,287
but this is exactly the kind
of book we wanted.
485
00:19:18,374 --> 00:19:20,463
- Right. Established,
promotable writers.
486
00:19:22,857 --> 00:19:25,686
- Oh. Liza,
this is really good.
487
00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:31,779
What did you wanna
talk to me about?
488
00:19:31,866 --> 00:19:32,954
- Nothing.
489
00:19:36,914 --> 00:19:37,915
[upbeat music]
490
00:19:38,002 --> 00:19:39,352
- ♪ I got what you want ♪
491
00:19:39,439 --> 00:19:41,876
♪ ♪
492
00:19:41,963 --> 00:19:43,051
♪ I got what you want ♪
493
00:19:43,138 --> 00:19:45,401
[phone chimes]
494
00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:47,534
♪ Yeah, I got what you want ♪
495
00:19:47,621 --> 00:19:51,494
♪ I got what you want, and you
won't believe your eyes ♪
496
00:19:51,581 --> 00:19:52,539
[knock at door]
497
00:19:52,626 --> 00:19:54,280
- Morning.
- Hey.
498
00:19:54,367 --> 00:19:55,542
[message sends]
Come in.
499
00:19:57,457 --> 00:19:58,327
All right, I was up all night
thinking about
500
00:19:58,414 --> 00:19:59,937
this Dylan situation.
501
00:20:00,024 --> 00:20:02,244
- I never should have
given her work to "Vulture."
502
00:20:02,331 --> 00:20:04,159
It was so stupid.
- No.
503
00:20:04,246 --> 00:20:06,379
No, it forced us
to get our asses into gear.
504
00:20:06,466 --> 00:20:07,641
Sit down.
- I love it
505
00:20:07,728 --> 00:20:09,164
when you talk
like a football coach.
506
00:20:09,251 --> 00:20:11,514
- "Millennial"
was a big money maker.
507
00:20:11,601 --> 00:20:13,299
We took this company
into the black,
508
00:20:13,386 --> 00:20:15,475
and apparently we need
to remind everybody of that.
509
00:20:15,562 --> 00:20:17,303
- Apparently, we do.
510
00:20:17,390 --> 00:20:18,826
- So here's what I'm thinking.
511
00:20:18,913 --> 00:20:21,698
We take Inkubator online
and monetize it.
512
00:20:21,785 --> 00:20:25,528
So we keep giving chapters to
"Vulture" until the very end,
513
00:20:25,615 --> 00:20:27,922
and then if people
wanna finish the book,
514
00:20:28,009 --> 00:20:30,925
they have to pay to download
the app that we create.
515
00:20:31,012 --> 00:20:34,494
- One question:
How do we make an app?
516
00:20:34,581 --> 00:20:36,452
- I don't know,
but I've also never
517
00:20:36,539 --> 00:20:38,324
bound a book by hand before.
518
00:20:38,411 --> 00:20:40,239
- I did once.
- [laughs]
519
00:20:40,326 --> 00:20:43,111
- But I get your point.
We outsource.
520
00:20:43,198 --> 00:20:46,593
- Exactly. And "Vulture" has
over 22.9 million
521
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,029
monthly unique visitors.
522
00:20:48,116 --> 00:20:50,814
And over half of their
readership is female.
523
00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:52,686
I know those readers
better than Charles.
524
00:20:52,773 --> 00:20:54,514
I know that they will
follow Dylan
525
00:20:54,601 --> 00:20:56,167
to that app
and buy the book.
526
00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:58,126
- Okay, but all of this
is going to cost money.
527
00:20:58,213 --> 00:20:59,823
And like Redmond said,
528
00:20:59,910 --> 00:21:01,695
Dylan could take that book
anywhere now.
529
00:21:01,782 --> 00:21:04,132
She's gonna want an advance.
- I know.
530
00:21:04,219 --> 00:21:05,829
I'm gonna use the money
that I have saved
531
00:21:05,916 --> 00:21:07,657
for a down payment
on an apartment.
532
00:21:07,744 --> 00:21:09,224
- Kelsey, you can't do that.
533
00:21:09,311 --> 00:21:11,661
Let's just ask Charles
for the money
534
00:21:11,748 --> 00:21:14,360
to try a proof of concept
for this app.
535
00:21:14,447 --> 00:21:16,231
Like a pilot program.
- No.
536
00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:18,712
I'm done asking.
537
00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:20,627
I was publisher here once,
okay.
538
00:21:20,714 --> 00:21:22,846
I know what I'm talking about.
539
00:21:22,933 --> 00:21:24,631
We keep shouting at Charles
540
00:21:24,718 --> 00:21:25,893
that Dylan
is a good investment,
541
00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:27,373
but we have to show him,
and when we do,
542
00:21:27,460 --> 00:21:29,244
Empirical will pay me back.
543
00:21:29,331 --> 00:21:31,246
- Okay.
544
00:21:31,333 --> 00:21:35,076
- I believe in Dylan.
545
00:21:35,163 --> 00:21:36,338
- I believe in you.
546
00:21:36,425 --> 00:21:39,341
[light music]
547
00:21:39,428 --> 00:21:43,563
♪ ♪
548
00:21:58,012 --> 00:22:02,712
♪ ♪
549
00:22:10,154 --> 00:22:15,464
♪ ♪
550
00:22:15,551 --> 00:22:19,250
- All right. [laughs]
551
00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:23,690
Now, for starters, we have
bacon and cheddar toast,
552
00:22:23,777 --> 00:22:25,953
followed by spaghetti
with ramps
553
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,738
and an apple galette
for dessert.
554
00:22:28,825 --> 00:22:31,524
- And the 2015
Gevrey Chambertin.
555
00:22:31,611 --> 00:22:33,221
I hope you like burgundy.
556
00:22:33,308 --> 00:22:35,441
- Mm. To a new relationship.
- Hey.
557
00:22:35,528 --> 00:22:37,921
- And an old relationship.
[laughs]
558
00:22:38,008 --> 00:22:40,228
- Cheers.
Thank you.
559
00:22:40,315 --> 00:22:41,316
- Ooh!
- So, Susan,
560
00:22:41,403 --> 00:22:44,319
I have quite an ask,
561
00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:47,366
but could you tell me the
secret to your grilled cheese?
562
00:22:47,453 --> 00:22:49,716
- I'm sorry, you have a famous
grilled cheese?
563
00:22:49,803 --> 00:22:51,674
- It was on the cover
of "Food & Wine."
564
00:22:51,761 --> 00:22:54,111
But it beat out
Thomas Keller's Branzino.
565
00:22:54,198 --> 00:22:56,375
It was--whoa.
- And almost every celebrity
566
00:22:56,462 --> 00:22:58,464
did a TikTok trying to make it.
567
00:22:58,551 --> 00:23:00,291
- All right.
Are you ready?
568
00:23:00,379 --> 00:23:01,945
- Yes!
[laughter]
569
00:23:02,032 --> 00:23:03,991
- I put a little mayonnaise
on the bread,
570
00:23:04,078 --> 00:23:06,602
and I grate some cheese
on that mayonnaise.
571
00:23:08,430 --> 00:23:09,866
- That's how you get
the crispy shell?
572
00:23:09,953 --> 00:23:11,868
- Yeah. If you call that shell
a tuile,
573
00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:14,480
and liken it
to lace on a wedding gown,
574
00:23:14,567 --> 00:23:16,525
and don't mention
the mayonnaise,
575
00:23:16,612 --> 00:23:19,354
that grilled cheese gets to be
on the cover of "Food & Wine."
576
00:23:19,441 --> 00:23:21,269
- Oh.
- Wow.
577
00:23:21,356 --> 00:23:23,663
- That is a good segue.
- Wait, what is?
578
00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:25,882
- Hiding the mayonnaise.
- Oh, God.
579
00:23:25,969 --> 00:23:27,797
- Well, my interest
is piqued.
580
00:23:27,884 --> 00:23:30,365
We wanna publish our book
under a pen name.
581
00:23:30,452 --> 00:23:33,237
- Wait, what?
- Serita Consemint.
582
00:23:33,324 --> 00:23:36,110
- Wow, that's got quite
a flourish to it, doesn't it?
583
00:23:36,197 --> 00:23:37,764
- Is there a reason why?
584
00:23:37,851 --> 00:23:40,070
- Serita was the name
of my great aunt--
585
00:23:40,157 --> 00:23:42,812
- No, no, is there why
you don't wanna publish
586
00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:44,335
under your own names?
587
00:23:44,423 --> 00:23:46,163
- Well, there's the mystery.
588
00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:47,643
And it's great
for the marketing.
589
00:23:47,730 --> 00:23:49,428
"Who is Serita Consemint?"
590
00:23:49,515 --> 00:23:51,342
Like Elena Ferrante.
591
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:55,129
- The two of you don't need
a gimmick to sell your books.
592
00:23:55,216 --> 00:23:57,827
And you should be proud
of your work.
593
00:23:57,914 --> 00:23:59,873
- We are proud of it.
- Most of it.
594
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,441
- He wanted to put
in a torture scene.
595
00:24:02,528 --> 00:24:03,920
- Yeah.
- I said no.
596
00:24:04,007 --> 00:24:06,619
- The book--regardless of
what name is on it--
597
00:24:06,706 --> 00:24:08,969
will be a success.
598
00:24:09,056 --> 00:24:11,667
The way you wrote together
was inspired.
599
00:24:11,754 --> 00:24:14,148
- Yeah, of course
the book will sell,
600
00:24:14,235 --> 00:24:18,500
I just don't think that people
like being lied to.
601
00:24:18,587 --> 00:24:22,417
- Right, but, you know,
that's what storytelling is.
602
00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:26,377
Right, it's lying to entertain.
603
00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:29,642
- And I don't disagree,
but save it for the story.
604
00:24:29,729 --> 00:24:31,600
When that bleeds into
real life,
605
00:24:31,687 --> 00:24:35,386
then I think people
just feel manipulated.
606
00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:39,086
- Well, we appreciate
your thoughts on this,
607
00:24:39,173 --> 00:24:42,263
but we're set on publishing
through a pen name.
608
00:24:42,350 --> 00:24:44,961
- Well, if you all
are set on that,
609
00:24:45,048 --> 00:24:48,835
then I'm afraid you'll have to
find a different publisher,
610
00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:51,925
[somber music]
611
00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:53,622
All right.
[chuckles]
612
00:24:53,709 --> 00:24:56,843
Let's make our way over to
the table for the main course.
613
00:24:56,930 --> 00:24:58,758
We wouldn't want
those ramps to wilt.
614
00:25:01,543 --> 00:25:05,460
♪ ♪
615
00:25:05,547 --> 00:25:08,028
- That was awkward.
616
00:25:08,115 --> 00:25:12,467
But, uh, I do feel like
it was the right call.
617
00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:14,077
- Why are you so stubborn?
618
00:25:14,164 --> 00:25:16,906
- Excuse me?
- You loved them.
619
00:25:16,993 --> 00:25:19,039
- Jonah was an idol of yours.
620
00:25:19,126 --> 00:25:21,520
Why cares if they
wanna publish under a pen name?
621
00:25:21,607 --> 00:25:24,044
- [scoffs]
- My God.
622
00:25:24,131 --> 00:25:27,438
It's gotta be your terms,
or it just doesn't work.
623
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:28,788
- That is not true.
624
00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:30,833
- Are you kidding me?
625
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,357
- We're not together
because all of a sudden,
626
00:25:33,444 --> 00:25:35,359
you needed to be married.
627
00:25:35,446 --> 00:25:37,536
We never even talked
about marriage.
628
00:25:37,623 --> 00:25:39,842
- It wasn't all of a sudden.
629
00:25:39,929 --> 00:25:41,844
- All of a sudden
you asked me,
630
00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:43,977
and all of a sudden
we're over.
631
00:25:44,064 --> 00:25:48,503
- I wanted to know
that you really loved me.
632
00:25:48,590 --> 00:25:51,550
I wanted to have all of you.
633
00:25:51,637 --> 00:25:53,334
- You did have all of me.
634
00:25:57,904 --> 00:25:59,296
Oh, my God.
You don't believe me.
635
00:26:01,037 --> 00:26:04,127
- Can you blame me?
636
00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:05,825
- I wish I didn't love you.
637
00:26:09,306 --> 00:26:12,179
- Liza.
638
00:26:12,266 --> 00:26:16,052
What are you doing?
- I'm ordering an Uber.
639
00:26:16,139 --> 00:26:17,750
- Three minutes.
You don't have to wait.
640
00:26:17,837 --> 00:26:20,187
♪ ♪
641
00:26:20,274 --> 00:26:21,754
[sighs]
642
00:26:22,668 --> 00:26:29,849
♪ ♪
643
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,513
[upbeat music]
644
00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:49,782
♪ ♪
645
00:26:51,479 --> 00:26:54,482
- Hey. I don't have
a title for it yet,
646
00:26:54,569 --> 00:26:57,224
but, you know, it's all about
the perception of truth--
647
00:26:57,311 --> 00:27:00,357
what you see when you look at
another person.
648
00:27:00,444 --> 00:27:03,534
Is it who they really are--
- Or is it who they were
649
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,406
at that moment in time?
650
00:27:05,493 --> 00:27:07,495
- [chuckles] Yeah.
651
00:27:07,582 --> 00:27:09,410
Something like that.
652
00:27:09,497 --> 00:27:12,543
But those tweets were never
what they said I was.
653
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:14,545
[light music]
654
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,287
Are you okay?
655
00:27:17,374 --> 00:27:20,769
Oh!
656
00:27:20,856 --> 00:27:23,859
- ♪ Baby, you have the key ♪
657
00:27:23,946 --> 00:27:25,905
♪ To open the door ♪
658
00:27:25,992 --> 00:27:28,472
♪ And let me out ♪
659
00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:33,216
♪ Maybe you and I
can leave this behind ♪
660
00:27:33,303 --> 00:27:36,219
♪ Once and for all ♪
661
00:27:37,307 --> 00:27:40,267
[jazzy music playing]
662
00:27:40,354 --> 00:27:42,704
- [gasps]
663
00:27:42,791 --> 00:27:45,925
You came.
664
00:27:46,012 --> 00:27:46,795
- Dinner ended
a little early.
665
00:27:48,797 --> 00:27:50,233
- Everything okay?
666
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,759
- Yeah. But we are not
doing the book.
667
00:27:53,846 --> 00:27:56,413
- Oh. Why not?
668
00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,242
- The authors don't wanna
publish under their own names.
669
00:27:59,329 --> 00:28:03,899
They wanna do
some gimmicky pen name thing.
670
00:28:03,986 --> 00:28:06,597
So I said no.
671
00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:10,384
Maybe I'm too stubborn.
672
00:28:10,471 --> 00:28:12,081
- Mm.
673
00:28:12,168 --> 00:28:14,867
For the record,
I would've said yes.
674
00:28:17,478 --> 00:28:18,697
- To the book?
675
00:28:18,784 --> 00:28:20,437
- To you.
676
00:28:20,524 --> 00:28:23,397
[upbeat music]
677
00:28:23,484 --> 00:28:30,404
♪ ♪
678
00:28:39,195 --> 00:28:41,154
[energetic music]
679
00:28:43,199 --> 00:28:44,548
- Clare.
680
00:28:44,635 --> 00:28:47,247
- You guys have been
so supportive since--
681
00:28:47,334 --> 00:28:48,552
well, we don't need
to say his name.
682
00:28:48,639 --> 00:28:50,598
- No, we do not.
683
00:28:50,685 --> 00:28:52,426
With Rob,
it's just uncomplicated.
684
00:28:52,513 --> 00:28:54,167
- Mm-hmm, except it's not.
685
00:28:54,254 --> 00:28:55,777
- I have gotten
several phone calls
686
00:28:55,864 --> 00:28:57,736
about Empirical's new start-up.
687
00:28:57,823 --> 00:28:59,389
- This is huge, Kels!
688
00:28:59,476 --> 00:29:01,783
Do whatever makes you happy.
That's all I want.
689
00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:04,873
- You are a remarkable woman,
Liza Miller.
690
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,006
[ambient music]
691
00:29:07,093 --> 00:29:09,182
[notification chimes]
- What's going on?
692
00:29:09,269 --> 00:29:10,183
♪ ♪
693
00:29:16,363 --> 00:29:22,935
♪ ♪
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