Nilay Patel

I did everything I could to not go to Mumford & Sons, and I ended up at fucking Mumford & Sons.

What's up?

How's it going?

I'm in Cannes in the south of France.

Oh, you've moved up several tax brackets.

I'm in what can only be described as an apartment at the Carlton Hotel.

It is very lovely here.

It is very hot.

There's a heat wave all throughout Europe and all throughout France.

And I didn't know this, but apparently there's been a culture war in France over air conditioning for like years and years and years.

Like it is like a left-right partisan issue.

And that has just come to an end with this heat wave.

as far as I can tell, because everyone from New York is at Cannes to talk about advertising.

And all the big tech platforms are here.

It's basically America.

I'm just in America, but everyone's drinking smaller, more potent cups of coffee.

And then the air conditioning everywhere is just cranked to the max.

Oh, I went two, buddy.

Don't, I went two.

The other thing to know is that we're on wildly different clocks.