#competitive conversation

Adam Sandler Unplugged: A Look at "Uncut Gems"

There is a lot of shouting in Uncut Gems (currently streaming on Netflix) or, as my friend Bob once called it “competitive conversation”.

Perhaps if you were born and raised in New York and its environs you became accustomed to it. Still, it is definitely an acquired taste (and I have spent the past 20 years in a small Canadian town where no one raises their voice – with the possible exception…