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the pre-opening diaries episode two. Here we go.

We're going to give you the intro to the pre-opening diaries.

Volume two. Yeah, so we taped that you've listened to the pre-opening diaries episode one.

We taped the first three before you opened your new restaurant in LA,

Major Domo, and then we taped the last two after. We just wanted to give some context to episode two,

which basically goes into when you're trying to put together a staff and a restaurant,

you need to do some testing of all the people you're doing, some dishes, all that stuff.

How tense of a time is this looking back from a skill once a 10 for you? Incredibly stressful.

I just got my biannual physical and they said my cortisol levels are through the roof still,

so that's good. One day we'll talk about the stress involved in it all, but right around this time,

every day was a little bit more and more stressful. The best way I can express the feeling,

it's getting your college acceptance results and asking a girl out of date, maybe medical

results too simultaneously. It's a terrible, terrible feeling. I think he was cathartic to talk to

you about it at that time. Volume one was a little bit about how we got to that point,

and we're going to go into this episode of the pre-opening diaries talking a little bit about

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