Most interactions we have at restaurants actually involve some degree of lying.

And that sounds like some weird conspiracy theory here, but you're just going to have to hear me out.

So today, Greg and I are talking to Bill Addison, who actually is one of our colleagues here at Eder, but unlike me and Greg who sit in an office all day, he is on an airplane or in really, really

cool restaurants all over the country.

Yeah, Bill is a proper man of mystery.

Most people don't know what he looks like.

He travels the country eating at restaurants

to build this list called the National 38,

which is our first ever collection

of what we believe are the country's essential restaurants.

It's kind of a dream job and I think we're all a little bit jealous of him.

So Helen, there's something I wanted to talk with you about, it's something I've been kind of bouncing around my brain.

I've actually never talked with anybody about this because I only recently became aware of this,

but it is that every restaurant meal involves lying.

And this lying, these lies, are not actually on behalf of the restaurant.

They're on behalf of the diner.

They're on behalf of you and I.

I don't know, maybe I just have a really dark heart,

but I think that the vast majority of human interaction

is based on lying.

Oh man, I didn't even think about that.

This actually might apply to everything.

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