We talk about mise en place. Mise en place is the production, which is in its place before we start.Once you have all this stuff lined up, it's going to go really fast.
Job destruction, layoffs. But what would you have misunderstood for that to be the case? like what what did you miss would you have uh misestimated for that to be the case? Ground zero for the job that was going to go go away was radiologists. You could scan billions of images and
contradicts those stories, we selectively ignore that because we're so invested in them. But if the story you're invested in is making you miserable, you should let it go. Right. And maybe you're missing out. Um because like when you told me like something about struggling with
that is the wrong question the right question is where is the Outlook most miserable so my uncle always had a desk plate in his office that simply read trouble is opport and we have had those replicated and have them in my office as well it's a
game like the one my daughter invented on the shopping trip but that we generally refuse to call the hard miserable pleasure of the shopping trip itself fun we're just just kind of unwilling to make that that jump once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary uh to its
good idea. By the way, uh uh he just wrote to me that has just written the misenthrop. didn't like people. U so I but that's a challenge I guess. I guess
um we had Jordan on start she was bit miserable very miserable she said um I thought I didn't know she was to be honest and I thought she was one of the cleaning
And the traditional way of making a Hollandaise, you make it with tarragon. The mise en place, I'll do this now if I wanted two proportions.
pro-growth frame of mind, there's so much pent-up energy and potentially in the American system, that alone is gonna, I think, cause, you know, growth of misery is just over.
Because often it's just impossible to optimize moral life and it's exhausting and misery-inducing to try. Sigal needed a way out. So, she decided to start an advice column. Something she thought could help her with her own
Oh I, I was completely dead inside. And misery, I could prevent. But today I'm like 85%.
And the astronauts aboard the thing would have gone to pieces with it. The miserable state of the American space program seemed perfectly in keeping with the miserable state of 1968 itself, a blood soaked year that included the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and the Soviet invasion
Do you both think that it's important in some regard for being a great comic to be miserable or have some sort of period of misery in your life? I think it can be helpful to have a period, but I don't think that's a funny period. I think that's a misconception. And uh I think you probably know that which is why you asked is when I was really getting
projects or cartoons felt like they belonged on stage. And "Misery" felt like such a natural to me. And I had also this very interesting story with Bill Goldman.
And if leaders on top think it's their organization, it's not. A miserable person. Me.
great work so for instance writing my book definitely great work for me definitely not a whole series of peak moments in fact lots of it was sheer bloody misery right first first draft fantastic by the way the ninth draft of a book you hate the book you hate yourself you want to kill yourself it is awful right and so there's a sense that actually and for me there's something
that miserable putt but when we first started that game on the
Ultra miserable uh it was it was so lightweight that I could see the sort of gaps in the in the stitching the of
just miserable workers well those which are sick and switch all have a parasite
Half your mise en place goes on the floor.
They have mise en place-- that means everything in its place-- so that you're not stressed out when you're cooking.
I do the mise en place.
It's always coming down in a kitchen. We talk about mise en place. Mise en place is the production, which is in its place before we start.
In the culinary world "mise en place" getting everything kind of like restaurant chefs do.
And you write a mise en place list. And your goal is just to prep out, cross stuff off, until dinner service starts. And then, you work service.
single and miserable, and I wasn't sure I wanted to stay in America. My life was in a lot of flux. As a company, we'd had all that Hot Coffee drama, so
And Logan is just like completely miserable, have to having to, you know, 'cause he is been in New York for 50 years, he's totally miserable being back in Scotland. And he gets in some argument with somebody and he says, finally just says, "My God, I cannot wait to get outta here
Everyone's miserable. So that's one of the things that I That's where you and I would disagree.
It was kind of miserable.
and collective misery. Yeah.
And she was miserable, but her reputation wasn't ruined.
And I was just miserable, really miserable, really depressed, actually.
Whatever kind of miserable scenario she's put into, she can find a silver lining.
Because we're cognitive misers.
It's too miserable to be a pessimist all the time.
It was misery. And so I finally got on my bike one day and rode it home, but I never commuted to work again, like, never.
You are miserable, and you're making everybody around you miserable, your family.
It was miserable. And it took us, like, six hours in the beating sun, but we did eventually land in this sort
So you're only miserable if you expected something other than the reality that currently exists.
That's what misery is.
It's miserable for everyone included, us as well.
Is there a more miserable experience than going to a mattress store and the salesman is stalking you around the store and trying
It produces miserable experiences.
--kind of miserable scenario she's put into, she can find a silver lining.
She enrolled literally miserable, homesick within the first semester.
We don't accept misery and frailty as natural ways of life.
Or they're miserable, and they don't know what to do.
and everyone's miserable and bundled up, and you don't see an inch of skin, except maybe for somebody's nose.
And I was failing miserably for the first couple of years.
And then it failed miserably, and he blamed all of his associates for not knowing how to execute these plans.