George Mack

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1,750 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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And then anybody know what this pub is?

Jimmy, this looks like one of your hauls.

Yeah, I know.

This looks like The Eagle in China.

Tolkien and C.S.

Lewis used to meet up, have a pint.

Tolkien would give CS Lewis his draft of the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings.

C.S.

Lewis would give Tolkien his draft of of Narnia or whatever he was working on.

They would both read it out loud and then roast one another over a pint.

My point of bringing these is I'm working on a a chapter called um it's around overthinking.

Uh we discussed it before.

Essentially the premise is uh don't think with your head, think with your uh feet, your hands, or your mouth.

So a few different premises on that.

There's a few I didn't include then.

So Dickens would, when he was struggling with insomnia and writer's block, would do what his friends describe as violent walking.

He would walk twenty to thirty.

30 miles.

Travis Kalinek, when he was creating Uber, he had a um uh a racing track built in the office.

And he would do walking meetings and could be constantly walking around.

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