Labor Day banter and the invention of the weekend
So, first question, guys. Uh, how
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So, first question, guys. Uh, how was your Labor Day? Did you properly labor?
Uh, I had a bunch of board meetings. We have a whole bunch of transactions going on, so it's a little, little interrupted. But you sound like you had a great long weekend, Peter. Your energy levels.
Your energy level is high because of getting ready for this pod today. It's like, oh my God. Yeah. I spent part of the day at Calamigos Ranch here in Malibu where we hold XPRIZE Visioneering. Anybody here in LA, if you don't know Calamigos, it's one of the most extraordinary locations uh out there. Uh, shout out to my friend Garrett Gerson, who's the CEO and runs that. Salim, how about you, pal?
Uh, I was in the Caribbean uh on a Hobie, and I truly, from the last episode, I ended up did end up with a little drink with a little umbrella in it. Had a couple of great days away and I'm back with a vengeance.
Yeah. Awesome. Alex?
Yeah, I worked through the weekend. On the other hand, weekend is a modern post-World War II invention anyway and I think increasingly a fiction.
Uh, yes, we're all working nine-day work weeks.
And how'd it go in London? You don't have Labor Day there.
We don't have Labor Day now, but after releasing the Champions, we had thousands of people reach out to launch them in 92 countries. And so just sorting through those people. We had billionaires, CEOs, others. So we're going to — it's going to be a busy time.
More others than billionaires and CEOs.
But there are, of course — that's a natural way of things. Surprising.
Every day is Labor Day in Europe. So that's no labor laws.
Wait, Alex, what did you say a second ago? There were no weekends before World War II.
The modern weekend, the two-day weekend, is a 20th century invention. There was a day of rest there. Sundays. I mean, in the Christian tradition, there was a day of rest, one day per week. In the Western Christian tradition, a two-day weekend — this is a 20th century modern day.
It was a Sabbath, of course. Yeah.
That would be, in the Christian tradition, Sunday. In the Jewish tradition, Saturday. That's one day per week. A two-day weekend is a 20th century invention.
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