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James Lileks' The Diner: Notarized Workout

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Retirement lets you do all the things you’ve ever wanted… provided you can get past the paperwork.

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0:00.0

You know, my name is Jack Lay.

0:04.0

And I'm here for one reason and one reason only to show you how to feel better and look better.

0:10.0

So you...

0:11.0

...so you... The

0:23.6

The I'm gonna The Something sweet, something breakfast anytime, is it a thought.

1:10.7

I'm not going to have the...

1:11.7

Oh, hi, folks. Welcome to the diner. I'm Jim's Lylex. I am. I was last week. I will be next week

1:16.7

as well. And I will be at the diner then, as before. The old diner out on old, I weigh 23,

1:23.8

about 13 and a half minutes from wherever you happen to be at the moment. And if you're hungry,

1:27.4

and like me, considering breakfast at an unbreakfasty time of the day,

1:32.2

you know, it's got an appeal.

1:34.8

Why not have eggs and hash browns in the middle of the afternoon?

1:38.7

I'm looking at the menu here in the pancakes.

1:42.3

Pancakes.

1:43.3

I don't know anybody who actually works their way through a full load of pancakes, because

1:47.5

by the edges are great, but by the time you get to that big sodden middle, it's like

1:52.8

eating a pillow that's been saturated in Mrs. Butterworth's.

1:57.5

No, that's where you go for your silver dollars.

2:00.6

I don't know who invented those, but it's a brilliant idea, really, because you avoid the whole problem of the saturated, soggy, sati, satiated middle of the pancake.

2:10.4

There's almost no middle to a silver dollar.

2:13.8

The problem is, I have an allergic reaction, and allergic reaction to the word silver.

2:22.3

And it's not because I want to reiterate and rehash the bimetal debates the previous century.

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