Gold Rush sits down with the Ace and B&GC people, and there is total silence. Lenny looks around, everybody looks at everybody else, there is much staring. Again: it's a combination of Lenny not thinking of anything to ask them, because he didn't make time to think about it, and Lenny not wanting to speak in front of the execs. Which kind of bums me out, because his English is really good, but it's still something he's weird about. Charmaine finally breaks the silence, by...fucking up. "...We want to know more about Helpful Faces For Friendly Places." The executives look at each other, and Paula, the Ace Hardware person, smiles fakely: "It's...actually New Faces For Helpful Places." Charmaine writes it down and asks Lenny whether he didn't have a question he was dying to ask. He says he is very interested in learning more about Ace Hardware, which could not have less to do with the task. He has the impression that it's a "small-town shop," and very small for some reason, and keeps underlining its homey, just-folks appeal, which is wrong. They're all like, "Huh? It's actually quite large." The guy exec tells them it's "significantly larger" than the room they're all sitting in, and Lenny tells him that was a very good answer. Tarek stares, terrified, and the executives are just like, whatever. Lenny looks at them kind of frighteningly, because how do they know that's just his face, and Tarek gets the willies about being in that room. He interviews that the Q&A would have gone a lot longer if any of them had any idea what their objective actually was. This is going to be awesome. The guy exec asks them "specifically" what they want to know, and Lenny mumbles something and continues to stare at them. It's like The Office, only less funny. Silence, faces, icky, act out.
Weekly Wisdom: "BE DECISIVE." The people that follow you, Trump tells us, will not believe in you as a leader if you're not decisive. However, he stresses, at the same time you don't want to be so quick on the draw that you fuck up. So, he sums up, you should be decisive, but also not fuck up. He might stress this several different times in different words, actually. I don't remember, I was writing it down in my little notebook. Be decisive but do not fuck up. I love how Trump is so hyperbolic in everything that the middle ground means nothing to him. Not: "Use temperance but be firm," but somehow do both ends of the spectrum simultaneously. "Super-fast! But also slow!" Over all of this talking, he's picking out shots from this woman's contact sheet, I don't know who she is, probably Miss USA, or maybe a prostitute or something, and he's very "decisive" telling her which of her glamorous boudoir shots are the best. For some unknown but I am quite sure nefarious purpose. It's gross, and sad, and so, so very Trump.