Unscripted: Phones, Funerals, Project Hail Mary & Modern Manners
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In this unscripted episode, the hosts discuss a range of topics from modern phone etiquette to the film Project Hail Mary and funeral customs.
249 In this unscripted weekend episode of Tailoring Talk Magazine, Roberto and Jon somehow manage to go from a countryside bike ride to Project Hail Mary, from Apple launch queues to Greek Cypriot funerals, and from cinema etiquette to whether phones are quietly ruining modern life. Jon joins the call mid-cycle, complete with wind noise, hills, passing horses and the kind of rural soundtrack that makes it sound like he’s broadcasting from Victorian England. From there, the conversation turns to Project Hail Mary, why Ryan Gosling feels like perfect casting, why the film works so well on a second viewing and why some stories really do deserve to be seen in the cinema. Roberto then shares a very Apple story about how queuing for the iPad 2 at Brent Cross led to one of his closest friendships, before the episode takes a sharp turn into funeral etiquette, what happens when you trust the wrong person’s dress code advice and why arriving at a very formal funeral dressed for a “memorial” is the sort of nightmare Richard Curtis would have written for Hugh Grant. The main rant of the episode is all about phones. Phones at funerals. Phones at concerts. Phones in cinemas. Phones in…
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