I don’t want to rant, but sometimes I do. I had worried that this would be one of those shows where I forget not to rant, but fortunately, that wasn’t the case. In this episode we talk about new restaurants in Berlin and my continuing introduction to the funeral business. The big takeaway for me this week is that it is really difficult to find trending funeral stories the week the Queen of England dies.

Big shot funerals bore me even more than just attending a regular funeral for a perfect stranger, so I didn’t really want to expose myself to the pomp, let alone the circumstance.

I think it’s a fair critique of our society that we are so enthralled with famous people that we forget that the best of them are just people who are good at their jobs and the worst of them use their power and influence to make the world worse.

Mostly, I ignore famous people unless it is unavoidable. It’s my little nod to the notion that we should be the change we want to see in the world. I know I’m technically wasting my time and that I’ll be really bad at Trivial Pursuit in another decade, but not having too much nonsense about what famous people think occupying my head is worth it.

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