Eyes On Tv
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Hello, hello and welcome to episode 9 of Chasing the Sweet Things in Life, the Sweet Paul podcast. Yes. Yes, episode 9. 9. It's going fast. And this episode is actually called Eyes on TV.

Eyes on TV? Yes. Oh my gosh. I know it sounds very cryptic, but... Yeah, I don't even know what that means. I know, I know. I'll tell. I'll tell later. This is all a surprise for me. This is the surprise episode. Well, no, I'm just along for the ride. I don't know what's going on. So what have we been up to? Just... I don't know. Well, we went to Costa Mesa. Oh, yeah, yeah. The lab event was fabulous. Yeah. I mean, I heard. I had to leave at 10 a.m.,

Yeah.

And apparently it went really well. And I drove for seven hours to San Francisco for the market there on Sunday. No, it was fabulous. It was such a good market. There were so many people. People were so into it. Yeah. I sold a lot of ceramics. I'm very happy about that. Yeah, I love going to new...

properties in new territories because people just get excited. And they were. They were super excited. They were really into it. It was such a fabulous place to do it because so much good food there. The coffee shop there was amazing. The brewery. Everything was like... Yeah, and the owner came who was so sweet and kind and into it. And he has a bunch of properties in Orange County, so we'll probably collaborate again.

But yeah, I wish I could have spent the day there with everyone. But, you know, I got to keep it moving. My only complaint was that it was a little too sunny.

Oh, yeah. I would have... Yeah, it was like 80 degrees. And I would have liked a few clouds, like once in a while. Yeah, if it was a little bit 10 degrees cooler, it would have felt more like holiday. I know. It's so ironic that there's snow on the flyer and it was 85 degrees. Yeah, yeah. The next day I woke up and I was like, why is half of my face kind of sore? And it was, of course, because I was sunburned because I was in the sun all day. Yeah, so Paul's half tan. You are actually half tan. Yeah.

One cheek is brown. The other cheek is white. Oh, well. Yeah. What can I say? Anyone has some powder? Yes. So I can even it out. Yeah.

Oh, well. All in a day's work. All in a day's work. Speaking of. Yes. Let's talk about what your... We mentioned it before, but what your parents did for a living as you grew up. Yeah, when I was really small, my dad was actually an electrician. He worked for a big company and he would go around and install electrics at houses and buildings and stuff like that. And my mom...

Her education was as a beautician. So she was the head of the beauty department at the fancy department store in Oslo. So did your father learn his trade and your mother learned her trade coming out of high school? Or did they go to trade school after? My dad went to trade school and my mom went to...

After high school, she went to something called the French School in Oslo, which was like the beauty academy. Oh, so chic. I know. The French School. Beauty academy? Yeah. Love it. Yeah, so she did that and she got a job right away.

In that department store. And after a couple of years, they loved her there. She was very, I mentioned before, both my mom and my sister, and I have it too, but a little less, they love selling. Yeah.

I think they just got off on selling. It's really crazy. And my mom had amazing sales. So after a couple of years, they made her the head of the department. Love it. Because she was so, you know. Good. Yeah. Yeah, she was so good. And she was, of course, when you work in beauty, you...

I mean, she was very glamorous. Yeah. She had really thick, big, blonde hair. Yeah. I have the same hair as her. Yeah. And she, of course, wore a lot of makeup, and then she wore false eyelashes. Ugh. And now you realize why this episode is called what it's called, because what she would do, the first thing she would do, so when she came home, was kick off her high heels, and then she would...

take off her eyelashes and she would always put them on top of the TV. Really? Yeah. And once apparently I said, mom, mom, your eyes are on TV. Yeah.

That was the place for her eyelashes. It was on top of the TV. Yeah. Yeah. I remember they were like, they were kind of big. They were kind of like drag queen-y. Yeah. And I love when women refer to, oh, let me put my face on or let me put my eyes on. It's just so cool. Yeah. She always wore false eyelashes. Yeah.

A couple of cute stories from when she was working was one year, it was the first day after Christmas that they were open. And this woman came and wanted to exchange a perfume bottle. And that bottle was stolen before Christmas. You know, when they sell perfume, they have like display bottles. Yeah. Yeah. Those are not filled with perfume. Oh, no. It's water. Yeah. It's called a pastis. Yeah. And they're filled with like vinegar or colored water.

So she came over to my mom and she said, oh, my husband gave me this for Christmas, but it smells strange. And you know what my mom did? She exchanged it because she felt so bad for the woman. Oh, yeah, because he... Stole it.

Oh my gosh, that's so kind. Yeah, she was like, I can't tell. I mean, maybe she stole it, but at least she was sympathetic. No, because I remember asking, do you think she stole it? And my mom was like, no, that woman was not like that at all. Oh, that was so sweet. Yeah, no, that was really cute. And then another time she would tell this story about...

So, you know, this was a very posh department store. It was the best department store in Oslo. Is it still there? It's still there, but it's kind of like broken up. So it's more like shops in shops. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. It's not the same. Yeah.

So once this guy who was clearly a farmer came in and my mom said that he had like pig poop on his boots and all the women that no one wanted to like, you know, no one wanted to go up to him because they were like, oh God. Yeah. So my mom went up to him and she was like, so can I help you? And he was like, yeah, I need to get some good smelly stuff for the girls back home. And my mom's like, well,

We have this perfume. It's like $9.99. And he was like, no, I don't think I want that. And he was like, that one. And this was when the new perfume from Nina Rishi came out. And it had those doves on top of the glass bottle. Oh, okay. It was called Herre de Temps. It was very fancy. It was super expensive. Yeah.

And my mom was like, yeah, that's one is like 699 a bottle. And he was like, yeah, I'll take eight. No, stop it. And my mom had to take him back to the back office and get him, you know, coffee and a piece of cake because they didn't have eight.

While her assistant was like running to the distributor and get like eight bottles because they didn't have eight bottles. Because it was the most expensive perfume they had. Yes. I love it. She would always tell that story because she was always like, don't look at, don't think. Don't judge people by the way they look. But we've experienced this at markets. Yes, absolutely. Where we might think someone's a little off.

off, perhaps. And then they buy four things. It's just like... It's a lesson that we need to remember every single day. Not to judge people by the way they look. Well, there's a story about the fur department at Bergdorf Goodman. The Marnie? Marnie told you? Yeah, Marnie told me. Where a woman comes in and she looks homeless. And they're kind of like letting her look at stuff.

And she goes up to this Sabre coat, which is the most expensive fur. Sable, yeah. Sable, sorry. Which is the most expensive fur. And she's like, oh my God, I really love this. I really love this. And they're like, yeah, it's, I don't know, $79,000 or something. And she's like, fine, I'll take it. And takes up cash from her like wheelie thing. Yeah. And pays them and walks out. So you never know. Yeah.

So that's like a good lesson to... Yeah. Yeah, she always likes... Sometimes rich... Because sometimes as a kid, I would be like, oh, look at him, look at her. And she was like, no, no, don't. Yeah, such a great lesson. Don't even go there. Yeah. Sometimes rich, eccentric people kind of look homeless, which is fabulous. Well, it's a little bit like we've done a couple of times on the subway. It's like avant-garde French food.

Yeah. Brand. Yes. Super expensive. Yeah. There's sometimes there's a blurry line between fashion and down and out. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure I sometimes look like a crazy person, but. I think we all do. Yeah. Depends on the day. Yeah. After my mom had worked at that department store for a bunch of years, she started her own shop, a clothing store, fashion. And it was called Sheila. Yeah.

Sheila. Sheila. And that was apparently after a character on a British TV show. Which show? I don't know. So how old were you when she opened Sheila? I think I was maybe seven or eight. Okay. Yeah.

And the great thing was that that shop was kind of close to my school. Yeah. So sometimes I would go there after school. Oh, fun. You know, help out a little, like in the stock room. Yeah. Were you into it? Yeah, I was really into it. The funny thing is that she took over the storefront from this woman who had a hardware store there for like 60 years. Oh, wow. Yeah. And she took over her stock there.

all her old stock oh yeah and of hardware things that you know we would have like a super sale and sold everything oh okay yeah but i remember in the stock room all those like old oh i wish we had that now it would have been so cool because pictures yeah fixtures old toys old like everything from back to like before so the store must have been had all wooden fixtures like built in no

It had, but you know, this was the 70s. This was very like, it was a very strong aesthetic. I remember that first, I mean, she would like once a year, she would like redo the shop. But I think the first one was dark green, orange and yellow. Oh my God. Yeah, that was like the first color. It was super dark, but it was super cute. Yeah. And she would sell, you know, yeah, French fashion.

She would go to Paris twice a year to buy stuff for the store. Yeah. To the trade shows. I was lucky enough to come along a few times. Yeah, you told the story. Yeah. And my dad, her and my dad would go. And, you know, they were always... It was so fun to see them come back because they always bought, like, new outfits. Yeah. They were so, like, chic. Because, you know, my mom...

had a beautiful big hair the makeup and back then she would have a really great figure and my dad was tall dark with a mustache looked like bert runnels yeah you know and it's cute because i remember they would tell stories about so when they went to paris they would go for like a long weekend like a friday to monday or something yeah and they will always have something that they called like the

the naughty night oh really mm-hmm where they would go to like a cabaret show in Paris in like the red light district yeah you know because you know Paris anything goes yeah and

you know, just to spice it up a little. Yeah, but it must have been very... But she said it was super chic. Oh, yeah, of course. It was red velvet and little lamps on the tables and amazing cocktails and, you know, beautiful girls like dancing and, you know, taking their clothes off and stuff. But once she was like, okay, I'm over this. So she went to the manager and she was like, excuse me, but I need to see a man up there.

Oh, my God. And 10 minutes later, it was a man stripping. Really? Yes. Yeah. She's like, enough for the man. Yeah. That's cool. She wanted to see a naked man on stage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know if he got naked, but you know. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was probably much more burlesque than stripper. Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah. Totally. Yeah, so that was cute. So she had that shot for, actually for like maybe...

Wow. And she would redo it like once a year. I would always help come up with like different concepts. Yeah. Yeah. Everything from like, one was like white and gold. One was like all flowers. One was more like country style. Yeah. She would always change it up. Yeah. And I, and then I think of like,

Maybe the second to last year, I forced her to take in Lacoste. Oh, did you? That brand. Yeah. So that I could get Lacoste. Well, you were like 21 or 22 at that point. Because she had it for 15 years. Oh, no, no. So, no, that's totally wrong. So, at that time, I was in high school. So, I was maybe like 16, 17.

So maybe she just had it for 10 years. I'm getting old. Like RuPaul, I'm getting old. I can't remember everything. But that's your whole formative years is literally your mother having a fashion boutique. Oh, yeah. And I forced her to take in Lacoste. And the only reason for that was so that I could get that.

Yeah. Do you remember any other labels that she carried? She actually, in the beginning... Did she have, like, Vidal Sassoon or, like, any American... It was only French. Yeah. Which would be, like... It was only French, but I actually do remember she sold Hermès... Not Vidal Sassoon, I'm sorry. Like, Sassoon or Gloria Vanderbilt or anything. No, no, no, no. That was all American. It was only French. Yeah. She sold Hermès scarves in the first years. Oh, okay, yeah. Because I do remember a little, like, display thing with the Hermès, like...

logo and stuff like that. So she must have sold something. Pierre Cardin. Yes, absolutely. That was like the big Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, that was like the big brands. Totally. And then, oh, this was really fun.

So every like two, three years, she would have like a massive like blowout sale. Yeah. To get rid of like all the back stuff. Yeah. And she would have it outside the store. Everything was kind of like, I mean, the store was really chic, but that day everything was just in like,

paper boxes with a price on. And every time we did that, we would go somewhere the day after. Oh, to celebrate? Yeah, to celebrate. Yeah, it was like a sample sale, probably. Yeah, we'd go to Copenhagen or to London and spend all the money. Oh my gosh, so fabulous. I know. Wow. And after a few years, so let's say she had a shop for 10. After five years...

She and my dad started Sheila Interiors. Really? Yeah, selling home decor. Oh, wow. Was it next door or in a different place? It was kind of like around the corner. Yeah. Sheila Interiors. I mean, it's so funny. I know. And me and my little friend, Rudy, we would work there for Christmas doing the wrappings. Aw. Yeah, we would be at the gift wrapping stations.

Cute. So did you ever work officially at any of these stores as you were growing up? No, you didn't. I didn't. No, not there. I did work at their later endeavors. So, you know, they got tired of all that stuff. So they sold the stores. Oh, okay. And then my mom was like, I think she went, they went to Copenhagen.

for like a little weekend giveaway. They came back and they were like, oh, we're going to open a salad bar. Oh, okay. What's a salad bar? Back then there was no salad bars in Norway. Oh, yeah.

Because they had seen this new concept in Copenhagen. The salad bar where people walk in and they can point out what they want and people would put it in. Yeah. And give them a salad. Yeah, which is on every street corner in America now. Yeah, but back then in Norway there weren't any salad bars. Yeah. So they actually created Norway's first salad bar. Wow. And they got this location in a mall.

a little bit outside of Oslo. Yeah. In a town called Lilleström. Yeah. Which I can't translate. It just doesn't make sense. Yeah. And the mall was called City Mall. So they call it City Bistro. So good. Yeah. So they did, you know, it was this big counter, uh,

with compartments. Yeah. And what they did was that people would fill out this little piece of paper and like ticked off what they wanted in the, the salads. Yeah. Gave it to the people behind the counter and they would put it in. Yeah. Yeah. So it was actually, I mean, it was brilliant. Yeah. And yeah, I, and yeah, so they would mostly have salads. The place was really small, had a small kitchen and, you know, they would do like,

a few warm dishes not a lot yeah but as soon as they opened it was a complete madhouse oh my god it was a complete madhouse the place was packed from morning to it was I think we closed at five because it was kind of like like a lunch place yeah but it was packed from morning to night it was insane

And they'd have like lettuce and like maybe corn. It was lettuce, corn, shrimp. Mushroom, shrimp, of course. Mussels, ham, cheese, tomatoes, onions. I mean, whatever, like everything. Yeah. Everything. It was actually kind of fun. And then, so I remember one summer when I was up from school, they were like, oh, Paul, you should...

Come and work in the kitchen. And I was like, okay, I don't really have anything else to do. How old were you then? Maybe like 16. So this is your first attempt to work officially? Yes, yes. Yeah, I never actually, in all my life, I only had one real job. I'm going to tell you what that is, you're going to gag. I worked at Laura Ashley. Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I worked at Laura Ashley two times a week.

In Oslo. In Oslo. And how old were you? This was in my 20s. Okay. Okay, we'll get back to that. So your entry into the workforce... My entry into the workforce was my parents' restaurant. Salad Bar. Salad Bar. And, well, the hot dishes we had, like, we did, like, you know, you could get steak, you could get, like,

some sort of schnitzel. It was a few, maybe say like four or five like hot things. Yeah. But they were always served next to like a big salad. Yes. You know, a big potato and everything was like, my mom was like, okay, people need value for money. So we would always like use like big green leaves. And so it looked like you got like an enormous plate and people were like, wow. Yeah. They thought they got so much food for their, you know, for their money. Yeah.

Because a lot of it was like greens. Yeah. Yeah. But it was actually amazing food. And the kitchen was really, I mean, everything was tiny and there was only one bathroom and stuff. So the health department was like, well, normally we wouldn't accept this. But since you're serving such healthy food, we're going to approve it.

Well, that's so interesting. That would never happen in America. Yeah. Like to just think it through. Yeah, I did there because they were serving such healthy stuff. Yeah. That they kind of looked, you know, they were like, okay, fine. Just do it. That's great. Yeah. And my mom got me like a little chef's outfit. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.

I refused to wear a hat. I was like, no, no, no. Don't mess up my hair. Oh my gosh. And what happened was that I... So, you know, it was really busy. Yeah. And orders were coming in. And what happened was that I developed like a really bad temper. I got angry. I got so angry that the people that worked in the restaurant...

I mean, I got stressed. That's what it was. I got stressed and then the stress turned to anger. So the people that worked in the restaurant didn't dare to give me the orders. They gave the orders to my mom and my mom gave them to me. Oh my God. I know. That wasn't sustainable. No. How long did you... I would scream and like, tell them they have to wait an hour. Like, I'm busy. I was really... I was crazy. When you were cooking... I was cooking.

I was cooking all the orders. Sorry, a 16-year-old should not be a chef. I think I lasted as long as a month because my mom paid me really well. Yeah. And she paid me in cash. So I was like, okay. But yeah, I couldn't take it. I think if I worked as a chef, I would have been dead. Yeah, yeah. Just stressed out. Interesting. So...

Yeah, you don't do well with stress. It was so stressful. Like pressure. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, I don't like pressure. No, yeah. No, I just want to chill. Well, good. At least you figured that out early. Yeah, so, I mean, I would help out like the holidays and stuff like that. I mean, Christmas was insane. Yeah. You know, as I said, in Norway for Christmas, we eat like the crispy pork belly. Yeah. Holy crap. We would sell so much food.

It was insane. It was really... So you actually served your mother's pork belly? At the restaurant for Christmas, yeah. And everyone wanted it, and it was really a madhouse. So how long did your parents have this? Did they open another one ever? Well, so what happened was that the first place was really small. Then they got...

the storefront next door so they chopped down the walls and the place got like three times as big okay so of course that really helped because then they had like a real place for the you know to do dishes and yeah you know they could have like the real bathrooms and everything was yeah still busy crazy busy like before christmas my dad had to like drive to like

the places that sold like wholesale food like twice a day. It was insane. It was just, wow. No one had experienced anything like it. And how long did they have that restaurant? So they had that restaurant for maybe like six, seven years. They opened up a couple of other ones and of course they shouldn't have done that. So everything kind of went. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, because you know, very often people ask me, you know, are you a chef? Have you ever worked in a restaurant?

And I always say, no, I'm not a chef. I don't do that stuff. But I actually have worked in a restaurant for like a month. And it's, yeah, people also ask me, oh, would you ever open a restaurant? And the answer is no. Actually, the answer is hell no. I would never. Yeah, it's a really difficult business to be in. It's such a difficult business. And I saw how much, how crazy it was for my parents.

And I mean, they lived and worked together. Yeah, yeah. You don't ever have a day off. But it worked for them. But, you know, it was, I think they were super stressed all the time. Yeah. You know, with staff. Yeah. Wow. So no. The Sweet Bowl restaurant. Never. Sorry, guys. It's not going to come unless someone borrows the name. Yes. For the right price. Okay, let's take a break.

What's up, sweet Paul? Yes. Yes. We're back. We're back. What's up? That's our question pod. Yes. Yes. Q&A. Okay. So Mary Kate asks, first, I want to say how much I love the podcast. It feels so warm and welcoming, like gathering with friends in a cozy cafe and sharing experiences and laughs. Love it.

I have so many questions. I am curious about Scandinavian design in an ordinary Norwegian home. I guess I can address the elephant or dollar horse in the room and say that I think in the States we think of IKEA when we think of Scandinavian interiors.

What was interior design like growing up and what is it like now? Are things modern and spare or cozy and toasty or somehow combining all of these? It's a great question. That is a great question. And yeah, I totally understand why people think of Scandinavian design and IKEA in the same thought because it's, I mean, it's actually kind of true.

Well, yeah, and I think he's probably the richest man in the world, I think. Yeah, I don't know if he's still alive, but yeah. There are, yes. There is some true Scandinavian design represented in IKEA, but not all. No, and I would say what...

When I think of Scandinavian design, what comes to mind to me is, of course, the clean materials. Yeah, white walls. Stone. Blonde wood. Leather. Yes. Wool. Yes. It's very like real, a substance. Clean lines. Mm-hmm.

No fuss. Everything has a purpose. Everything has a purpose. It's aesthetically pleasing, but it has, it's there for a reason. Yeah. Well, that's the sort of manifesto of Scandinavian design is beautiful. And is it useful? Yeah. Yeah. There's less, less chachkis. Yes. Less chachkis. Yes. We are not worried about like a wall without anything. Yeah.

And there's also all the furniture. There's a philosophy in Scandinavian design that you should be able to see all four corners of the room, which means all furniture is off the ground. Yes. So everything's on legs. Absolutely. And, you know, in Norway, so the big trend for a while has been, you know, the word hygge, which is Danish, which means dislike.

cozy feeling. We have that in Norway too. It's called KOS. K-O-S. And it's really hard to explain to someone that's not

From Scandinavia. Because it's more than, you know, having a blanket and putting on a candle. Yeah. It's more a feeling that you have inside. Yes. That is about friends and family and feeling safe and doing something nice and having a good meal. It's like cozy connection. Yes. Yes. Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. But it's interesting that you...

The way you described some of your mother's design choices, it wasn't very Scandinavian. No, she was very... At home, her dining room and her... Oh, yeah. Sheila did not sound... No, she was very influenced by like her travels. Yeah, so it was more of like an international sort of, you know, 70s. Absolutely. She was very like, she was very international. Yeah. We had, when I was really small,

We did have a lot of those Scandinavian classic furniture, teak, all that stuff. And of course, she came in and she redid stuff and she would throw all that stuff out. Because she was like, I want more. I want to be with the times. Scandinavia, actually, I think Norway is one of the countries in the world per capita that spends most money on their homes.

And that is, of course, because of the weather. Yes. Because we spend so much time indoors. Indoors. Yeah. You know, so if you have a good home decor shop and brand in Norway, you can make a lot of money. Yeah. Because people spend a lot on their homes. If you really want to get a sense of Scandinavian design and, you know, current modern Scandinavian design that's,

still relevant after you know stuff that was designed in turn of the century the 20s like you know

any of the design magazines based in scandinavia like the el decor from scandinavia or there's like residents there's one called residents there's one called the beauty of those magazines is that they do have that point of view yes absolutely it's not like american el decor that's all over the place it's like no it's it's from the perspective yes and and it will totally blow your mind

Yeah, it's beautiful. When you come into a Scandinavian home, you feel very welcome, not just by the people, but what you see in their house. Because it's very thought out and all, you know, it's a lot of light colors. Yeah. You know, it's a lot of white and beige and brown and, you know, natural colors. A lot of plants. Yeah. A lot of textiles. A lot of textiles. Wool, cashmere,

letter printed printed fabrics yeah but it's everything has simplicity and everything is there for a reason and oh they also love big windows you know so they can you know out by nature yeah yeah cool love it okay next question uh comes from jimmy paul you are like me a larger guy like me okay yes

I really love your style. Where do you buy clothes? I have such problems with finding cool clothes in my size. Any suggestions would be great. P.S. Love the podcast. James, my favorite is Alaska too. I love it. Love it. Well, we're certainly experts on fashion for real body types. Me in particular because I love...

pleasantly plump man because paul because he is he is my pleasantly plump man i am a pleasantly plump man yeah yeah i was doing so good for a long time i lost a lot of weight and then slowly just like yeah came back yeah you know yeah i'm gonna work on it yes yes

To be honest with you, sometimes it's really hard to find good clothes in my size. It is better nowadays than perhaps it was 10 years ago. Yes, it is. You have brands like Ralph Lauren that has a big and tall line. You have ASOS.

ASOS is probably the number one best resource. Yeah. It's a British-based online retailer. Yeah. They sell, they sent to America. A-S-O-S. Yes. ASOS. Yeah. They have really good stuff. And also kind of like, you can find classic stuff, but you can also find...

Trendy. Yeah, for sure. Amazon actually has a, you know, Amazon fashion. They have a big and tall section where you can find the good basics, like white linen shirts and things like that. Yeah. I love their linen shirts. Yeah. So on the high end, there's obviously like Ralph Lauren or on their website, you can find big and tall. Yes. And there's some other brands.

I mean, and also there's a lot of fashion brands that do oversized clothing. It's not necessarily made for bigger guys, but it's just oversized in style. But on the, you know, accessible, you know, lower end ASOS for sure. Yeah. And I would say...

I know it's intimidating to go into one of those, let's say go into Valentino and you're a bigger guy and you want to look. Go to the department stores and see what they have of like

You know, the fancier brands. Because as James said, a lot of it is oversized. Well, yeah. You just have to try it on. Yeah, exactly. Try it on and see. Don't be afraid to walk into that department store or that boutique and say, what's your biggest size you have in this? Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? It's like the more that we go out there and demand the right size, the more hopefully...

The designers will listen because the retailers will demand it. And, you know, it's not always about just being like, oh, there's nothing out there for me. Go out and demand it. Yeah. It's very annoying sometimes because you will go into a store and you will be like, oh, do you have this in like blah, blah X? And they will say, no, we don't have it in the store, but it's online. Yeah. That's the other thing. It's so boring. That's bullshit. Yeah. I'm sorry. Because you...

As a big guy, too, you want to actually try on stuff. Well, yeah, and you want to have the experience of shopping and being... Yeah, exactly. There's something very satisfying about walking out to the back. Oh, trust. Yes. But, of course, you could always buy a handbag or shoes if they don't have the clothing in your size. Or a fabulous pair of sunglasses. Well, the thing is that, okay, you can actually create an outfit...

Your outfit can be very like, you know, a pair of pants and a shirt. But if you have like a cool pair of shoes, you have a cool bag, you have a cool necklace, you maybe have a hat. You can kind of create something out of it. That's kind of what I'm doing these days. One, I can't afford to buy the really expensive stuff. And it's hard to find the sizes. So I buy...

Less expensive stuff that... Yeah, he spends more money on accessories than on outfits. A cool pair of shoes or something like that. Yeah. So, yeah. Anyway, it's out there. Just don't be afraid to look. No, you have to look for it. Cool. Okay. Okay. Last question.

Dory asks, if you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would that be? Good question. That's easy. Yeah, eggs. Eggs. Hard-boiled, soft-boiled, fried, scrambled. A la Francaise. I mean, because, yeah, if you have access to butter and herbs...

you know, on that desert island where there's only chickens laying eggs and you have nothing else. I mean, yeah, eggs are just so delicious and we both love them. It's so funny how there's one thing. So the thing is we eat,

three eggs each every morning. Yeah. And I never get tired of it. Never. I love it. There's never been a morning where I wake up and I'm like, no, I think I want something else this morning. Never. Yeah, no. And sometimes, you know, because we eat eggs just in the morning because we're here, we're like answering, you know,

Spending time with the dogs, walking them, looking at emails, watching the news, all that stuff. So we always eat eggs. But then if we say we go to lunch or something or brunch later, I'm always like, oh, I want breakfast, but we already ate three eggs this morning. Yeah.

And, you know, I mean, I could eat like half a dozen eggs a day. I love it. Yeah, I think I could eat a dozen. I mean, I could honestly eat eggs for every meal. It has to have something else to it. In your pad thai, in your souffle, in your, you know, all these things we make at home. Yes, we make so many souffles. Yeah.

That's James' speciality. Oh, yes. It's a souffle. Oh, yes. Holy. It never collapses. My technique is extraordinary. It's incredible. Not. We'll invite you all over for James' souffle. Yeah. We'll have a souffle night. Oh, my God. No, sorry. No. Oh, well. No. I enjoy dining, not cooking. Thank you.

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