The Ringer’s Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Andy Greenwald apply a few squirts of L’air de Panache before rewatching Wes Anderson’s 2014 hit comedy adventure ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, and Adrien Brody. Watch this episode on video on our YouTube channel, Ringer Movies! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta recently hired a team of professional pickpockets to take items from his players’ pockets during a team dinner to teach them “a valuable lesson about being alert and prepared at all times”.
New from the Steve Jobs Archive: an hourlong video of young Steve Jobs delivering a talk on design in 1983. Jony Ive wrote a splendid introduction:
The revolution Steve described over 40 years ago did of course happen, partly because of his profound commitment to a kind of civic responsibility. He cared, way beyond any sort of functional imperative. His was a victory for beauty, for purity and, as he would say, for giving a damn. He truly believed that by making something useful, empowering and beautiful, we express our love for humanity.
Link: stevejobsarchive.com/exhibits/objects-of-our-life?_kx…
If elected in November, Kamala Harris would be the first US president to have worked at McDonald’s. “She joins 41 million Americans, including Jeff Bezos, who worked at the Golden Arches.”
Scott Heiferman sold his dotcom company in 1999 and then went to work the counter at McDonald’s “to help get back in touch with the real world”. One takeaway: “most of my mcdonald’s co-workers did their jobs much better than i ever could.”
The free healthcare for athletes in the Olympic Village shines a bright light on one of America’s most shameful, uh, “features”. “The Olympic Village offers free healthcare. The United States, of course, does not.” God, this is just embarrassing.
