Lucy Sullivan
speaker
311 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Lucy Sullivan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Original music by Luis Guerra and Stellwagen Symphonette.
Mastering by Marcello de Oliveira.
Special thanks to Robin Nagel, Marty Bellew, and Norman Siegel.
And thanks, of course, to Malcolm Gladwell.
I'm Lucy Sullivan.
And we had this conversation where I was like, how is everything? Things are good with me. Like I didn't mention any, there was no specifics because I wanted to make sure, like I didn't want it. If you walked in and someone had no idea who you were, you would feel bad about yourself.
When my wife and I were watching a show, I'll be like, who's that guy? And she's like, it's the main character. He just has a hat on. Like, it's literally Robert De Niro from the other scene. And I was like, ooh, this is kind of strange.
I am afraid that I might have an interaction with someone and I might not recognize them and I might not give them the attention that makes them feel good.
Walking around with one arm, you are highly recognizable. It's like, how many one-armed people do you meet? Probably not a lot. So everybody comes in to the coffee shop, and if you see me, you probably will recognize me as that guy from the coffee shop the next day. But I don't recognize a lot of the people who come in.
That's Caitlin with the beautiful chin. This is Daniel. He has bald head. That's how I remember him. Small bald head.
Oh, there she is. It took me a while to recognize her, but she's got, like, very distinct glasses, which is useful. But she's been talking about changing her glasses, so I'm worried about that.
Everybody who comes in the door, I stare them down because I'm like, I hope I have to see if I recognize you or know you or not. So I'm staring at them and they look at me and they're like, hi. And I'm like, hi. Just in case I know them. And they're like, well, that guy's friendly.
Like, our friendship almost ended over this, and this is my nightmare. So this person felt so bad because I was not giving her the right attention. that she, like, had a whole, like, crisis. Like, what did I do? I feel so bad. And that's why I'm so weird and extra friendly.
Hi, Malcolm.
That is true. We're here because I want to tell you about something I'm calling the Missy incident. Oh, my goodness. It totally changed the way that I think about something foundational. And it also reminded me of you.
So it all happened at this coffee shop that I go to all the time.
Malcolm, I can tell you the name of the coffee shop off mic, but my fellow cafe goers did not want me to name it on this podcast because it's that good.
Yeah, it's so good. And it's the kind of place that's always packed. So you have to be comfortable sitting with a stranger if you want to get a seat. And that's where this all starts. So the person at the center of this, her name is Missy Kurzweil. She was fresh off of maternity leave with her second kid when the incident happened.
So Missy is looking for a place to work outside of her home office and she finds this coffee shop. On her third morning, kind of feeling out this place, is this where she wants to set up camp for her HQ? She sits down at this table and in walks this guy and he's like, hey, you mind if I sit here? She says, sure. This is J.J. Goode.
Missy's on the phone with her kid's pediatrician, and JJ is sitting there eavesdropping. And, you know, the doctor asks for what's the patient's name, and Missy says, oh, his name's Remy. And JJ freaked out because he was like, you have a Remy? Because I have a Remy. And then, of course, like, then we were off to the races. Turns out they both have cats named Sunny. They both are freelancers.
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