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Very good interview.

Thanks, Matt. I was just babbling while Christopher tortured me for the number of my Swiss account.

Andre, please send that number to me. I'll take good care of it.

There's no money in it, and it's a negative interest account. It's a masochism thing, giving money to deserving Swiss bankers. I couldn't possibly do it to you.

Ah, Swiss bank accounts. I used to have one when I worked in Lausanne. Tiny neighborhood branch on the corner with one teller in it. Always the same teller. Young, expressionless guy in spectacles. He was polite, but I can imagine he was always thinking, "here's that scruffy Californian again...his French is horrendous. I will take his money."

I alvays spick Cherman mit a proper Prussian aksent in Svitserlandt und am treated mit der proper respeckt of klick-ed heel und a bowing from ze vaist.

However, please note that if you open a Swiss account with a 400 oz Gold Bar, they will treat you like a god. The bank manager will run to his grandmother's house and make her bake you cookies. If his grandma isn't alive, he'll find 'a' grandma somewhere to do it.

The hot cocoa will actually be hot.

They won't question the surface stamp of the bar, either. They don't want you scratching out assayer approval serial numbers because they lose a few molecules of the precious stuff.

You're too cynical, Daniel. If you're more trusting, you will be happier, even if poorer.

Great interview. But you left out painting.

And ...Yum yum! I like this snippet "[I was]...the guy in shades you see whispering in el presidente’s ear just before he changes his mind about ordering a little massacre of women and children."

Lovely!

I looked good in a white uniform, but I didn't so much like people shooting at me. Vanity has a definite price ceiling!