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You Look Nice Today

Episode 17: Where Is the Ham?

You Look Nice Today

You Look Nice Today

Personal Journals, Ylnt, Scott Simpson, Lonely Sandwich, Twitter, Adam Lisagor, Merlin Mann, Comedy, Society & Culture, California

4.7897 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2008

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sandwich smiles into the mouthpiece, teenage telemarketing salad days, LonelyWear’s autumn line, the secret of our success (at Macy’s), ham symphony, Karl gets fired from the Geek Squad, acquaintance on final approach, face school.

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Photo: Photocapy, Canned Ham (Detail)

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0:00.0

Is it like a bungee thing? I mean does it one thing I'm curious about for in terms of if you need to have a large

0:05.6

There's more freedom of movement than you're really assuming at this point really

0:08.9

You know more of a classic web motion put one put a

0:12.0

title for kind of four to you guys a web motion put one foot a little bit in front of the other

0:13.8

four years does the ham touch your legs and like I said sure there's a

0:16.8

I think we should mark it not at all that's the beauty of the pulley

0:20.0

the market which system where is where is ham? The ham is that's actually literally the first

0:25.8

sentence I learned in Spanish. You look nice today, a nice today, a journal of emotional hygiene.

0:41.6

I was young, I was was probably 19 and I worked as a phone

0:46.9

answer I guess you call that a receptionist and that was where I had multiple

0:51.4

clients of his complain that my phone manner was horrid.

0:55.0

Really? You know, take me through this. What did a day look like when you were answering phones?

1:00.0

Every once in a while, maybe a couple times an hour, the phone would ring, and I'd just see it be so bored,

1:06.0

and had forgotten the part of my brain that was kept active by socializing with...

1:12.0

And to be fair, that's a... In your brain, that's a very... kept active by socializing with.

1:12.6

And to be fair, that's a very small part of your brain.

1:15.8

Yeah.

1:16.8

Right, no, exactly.

1:17.3

So I'm not gifted in phone etiquette to begin with.

1:20.8

But I was given the bit of advice from him after these number of complaints

1:26.4

that I should smile when I answer the phone.

1:29.1

My mom used to say that. My mom taught me that. She said always smile into the mouthpiece yeah that's

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