Jason Schreier

By the way, I tried to buy one of these and couldn't.

Yeah, I've heard they're sold out.

I'm sure they'll turn up eventually.

Well, no, it wasn't that they were sold out.

It's that 30 seconds after they went live, the credit card payment just borked and I had to hit refresh 50 times and still couldn't get one.

So now I just don't have one.

I'm sure they'll make more.

They were sold out like 20 minutes after it went live.

I think bees are already so cool.

The bees are all playing Blueprints.

Love it.

So I was trying to decide between two books for this one that I read recently and loved, both of which I loved deeply.

One of them was London Calling by Patrick Radden Keefe, which I will not talk about because that book has gotten plenty of attention elsewhere.

So instead, I will talk about one that deserves more attention.

But if you're curious, London Calling is...

really freaking good and maybe i'll talk about it down the road um so i want to talk about called like this kirk is shaking his head he's like you pulled a kirk hamilton and did two more things um my one more thing is a book called like this but funnier by holly canter and uh this book is about what it's like to be a writer in hollywood kind of in the tone of hack

On HBO, a show that we all enjoy.

And it's about this woman, this TV writer named Caroline Newman, who is kind of like in a career rut.

She's been going through development on these shows and development is this kind of torturous process where you're trying to get a show made and you're not actually getting paid for it and you're just...

waiting for executives to say yes to you and she's married to this therapist and she winds up like accidentally sort of accidentally some hint hint wink wink accidentally stumbling upon her husband's notes about this this client of his named the teacher who has some fantasies about murdering her students parents and