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It makes a huge difference for our show so please do that. Thank you so much. And now let's start the show. Let's get in it. Hey everybody, it's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness.

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That we've a bonus episode. So here we go. Our first question is, quote, I recently had a waiter who, after introducing himself to everyone at my table, proceeded to go through the straightforward

menu, item by excruciating item, and did so with such zeal, such

passion, that it was basically performance art. As you might expect, this recitation took

several minutes and my companions and I were staring at each other in disbelief the entire time.

If I'm found in this situation again, is there a plight way to let the waiter know that I don't really want them to perform the menu for me?

To add some additional details, everyone I was dining with had been to the restaurant before, and we told the waiter this.

The menu is also structured in a very normal way, appetizers, salads, mains, desserts, and offers food that would be incredibly familiar to most Americans.

I was excited to hear what you were going to say, Nick, just because...

Really? Why? Have you never experienced this?

I have experienced this, but I am deep down in my bones.

The kind of person who will just wait it out.

And not only will I wait it out, I will assume that their manager is watching, so they have to do it. So I will give them everything I got. Oh, oh, delicious. Because I feel like if you told them up top that you've already eaten there. Right. You've given all the signs. Yeah. I don't need it. They're going to go into it. I don't

have the heart to like put my hand out and say this is fantastic, but we already know what we want. Yeah. This is a little maddening though. I've experienced this. I mean, it always starts with like, oh, have you been here before? And no matter what you say, it's either going to be like, oh well welcome back or welcome in and then the same speech so it's sort of like oh i don't think

you're modifying much for me you say. It's either going to be like, oh, well, welcome back, or welcome in, and then the same

speech. So it's sort of like, oh, I don't think you're modifying much for me right now. And when it's a restaurant where it's like straightforward, oh, this thing here, this is an appetizer. You start with that. You know, it's like, we got it. We're familiar with like how things work. And if the menu is so complicated that it does need some explanation, well then, okay, but like make it as brief as possible. Let's not make it too long. I understand why it's maddening and I've definitely been in this situation. I just personally, this is one of the ones where I'll just be like, I'm going to listen for five minutes. Yeah, I mean, normally, honestly, I would just let it go. Especially if you start listing specials and they're like, oh, I'm not interested in that dish. I tune out whatever else went in that dish as you're talking. I think, though, if we feel like, oh, this is going on for a while, like it's been two minutes and we're only now just getting to the entree section. I think we can jump in. We can jump in. Oh, actually, I think we've already decided and we're ready to order. But you got to be ready to order is the thing. If you're going to use that one. Oh, you mean you weren't ready to order. You just want to cut this person off from talking. Yeah, I think that's what's happening. And they came over there doing the specials, but I mean, I could be reading this wrong,

but the group hasn't gotten to settle yet and pick their things. They just don't need help. Okay, in my mind, I thought like, oh, we were ready to order, but like... Oh, I think if you're ready to order, there's no problem. You can just be like, actually, we're ready to order. you can cut them off.

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