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Cold Open: The Service Industry Is the Service Industry

from The Big Booth (with Devan Costa) · #141

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2 min

Tim lays out his philosophy that the service industry exists to serve customers, drawing on his own years as an unreliable double-decker bus tour guide in New York where he refused to give tours and got punched by a Russian woman.

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  • 0:55The service industry is literally called the service industry—the definition of 'serve' doesn't leave room for interpretation.
  • 1:18Tim worked as a tour guide on a double-decker bus in New York and would just play the automated recording instead of giving the tour himself.
  • 1:50A Russian woman punched Tim in the stomach once during his time as a tour guide.

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