Ben Schott

I mean, the language of the stunt world.

I mean, you know, you need to describe different types of camera movements.

You know, we're going off sticks.

means we're taking the camera off the tripod.

The martini shot, the martini shot is the last shot of the day and people find it amusing and pleasing and it just enters the language.

So we are surrounded by secret languages and we interact with them all the time without knowing them.

So every time you go into a bar, the bartenders, the guys behind the bar, will have their own language.

Every time you go to a restaurant, the kitchen and the front of house will have their own language.

Every time you interact with all sorts of groups, you are interacting with the language and you often don't see it or hear it because it's private.

the more I dived into any one of these worlds, the more I felt a tremendous empathy with the people involved.

And it was a really interesting way, because once you get into the language, you get into the mindset, into the perspective.

So for example, Starbucks, Starbucks baristas.

I thought I was a perfectly polite Starbucks customer, coffee shop customer.

I am so much more respectful and polite now, knowing what they have to deal with.

with the Gertrudes and the Krustys and the Touchers and the Hecklers and the TikTok guys who come in and they just shove the TikTok video and go, make me the secret menu.

There is no secret menu, but TikTok creates these bizarre hack drinks.

And so realizing the language of Starbucks allowed me to really get into the mindset.

And when I go in, I'm a much better customer.

So I'll give you an example of a world you won't be familiar with, which is the Diamond District of New York.

And it's a language that a lot of it is Yiddish, there's some Hebrew, there's some Hindi, there's all sorts of different languages.