Ellis Jones

And it's got to be the book we expected to get.

They're checking pages the whole time.

Right.

But they're also trying to wait to pay me that kill fee until the five years is up and see if I fuck it up between now and then so they can get out of paying it.

So I finished the book.

Oh, okay.

I continued to do...

Around the same time, a friend of mine had died, and he was kind of a locally famous dude in Brooklyn, and it literally – like, this all happened at the same time.

My book gets canceled.

My homie dies.

We were actually going to work on a Vice show together, and –

So I literally, like, ended up using Tinder as, like, therapy.

Like, I would go out on Tinder dates and just talk about... I'd be like, you know that bicycle messenger who got beat to death?

That was my homie.

They're like, oh, we knew him?

I remember I read about it in the paper.

And I'm like... And then every night would pretty much be a Tinder date, me talking about this to a different woman.

Like, I'm proud of it.

It's a little embarrassing, but, like, I didn't have anybody else to talk to about it.

Right.