I love this guy. This is hilarious.
Men in silks congregating around a small table.
(dog whines)
I might have to give him some more cheese.
We have one nice wine glass.
(soft music)
(bog barks)
(ding)
Hello.
(soft music)
And welcome to my living room.
My name's Jonathan
and this is Noodle,
and this is Tools of the Trade,
the show where we find out
what tools everyday entrepreneurs need
to do their work every day.
Noodle and I are thrilled
because we are gonna be sharing a box curated
by superstar skier, base jumper
and high-octane athlete, Matthias Giraud.
So he was born in France,
which is France but said in that way.(laughs)
And he currently lives in Oregon,
but throughout his life,
he's always been pursuing extreme sports.
He does not consider himself an adrenaline junkie.
He's always trying to push the envelope with
what feats he can accomplish.
And along the way, he inspires others
by sharing his story through a Ted Talk,
which is something you guys could check out online.
It was amazing.
Anytime you can get a Ted Talk is pretty legit.
But he also does a lot of interviews
where he basically teaches people about,
not necessarily what it means to take risks,
but what it means to do something
outside of your comfort zone.
To do something that you didn't think you could do before.
Like, for example, I didn't think that I could live
in an apartment on the fifth floor with a 25-pound pug
that I had to carry up and down the stairs
every time he had to go potty.
I didn't think I could do it, but here we are.
Anyway, using Matthias and Noodle as my muse
in putting myself outside of my comfort zone,
I'm gonna do something that
I'm not usually comfortable doing,
and I'm gonna make others do something for me.
Can you grab my coffee?
Thank you so much.
(sighs)
I didn't think I could do it.
I did not think I could do that,
but here I and I'm still in one piece
and I got what I wanted.
Thank you, Chris, that was very kind.
It's cold, Christopher. I'm kidding. Oh, my god!
I'm kidding, oh my god!
Okay, so let's get into this box.
I'm excited to see what inside of it.
(laughs)
Ooh la la, I have a baguette
right here, which is French.
And did you know that baguette
in French is (speaks foreign language)
and bread is (speaks foreign language),
which is spelled like pain.
Your little bread here has got a twin sister
and her name is magnum of wine.
A wine that's called Wine of France,
Cuvee des Chevaliers.
I don't know what that means,
but based on this image,
I think that translates roughly to
men in silks congregating around a small table.
Is this cheese?
Is this wine, bread and cheese?
Oh yeah, he's like. (roars)
(soft music)
(Noodle whimpers)
You're not getting bread and cheese.
You can not have bread and cheese.
He said that this is obviously this is necessary
for climbing the Alps, like a good French man.
If you are gonna do something like that,
you've gotta bring the right meal.
And he also says, and I think this is probably cheeky,
but also very real. (laughs)
He says if you're doing something like this,
it could very well be your last meal.
So you want, I know, Noodle.
The idea of a last meal is so stressful to him
because he'll never stop eating.
This is a guy who knows how to live his life, right?
Someone who base jumps and skis professionally for a living
something tells me that he's used to creating his own rules
and living within those confines, just like Noodle.
You are, okay, I'm gonna give him a small piece of cheese.
That's it.
The next item we have...
(laughs)
I love this guy. This is hilarious.
We've got "Wayne's World," one and two.
(soft music)
I love the idea.
A. It heavily speaks to him having a sense of humor.
But I do love the idea that if he were on the Alps
and he had a DVD player and he had one movie left to watch,
he couldn't decide between one or two,
so he'd watch 'em both.
I have to make a confession, though. I will make a
confession. I have never seen "Wayne's World."
I have never...
Noodle's like, "I was 80 years old
when "Wayne's World" came out."
I think I missed out on it.
What do they do?
- [Katie] They party on.
- Cool, okay the next item we've got is,
this is an essay by a French philosopher named Albert Camus
that is called "The Rebel and The Modern World."
And is essentially one of the most influential
and prolific essays written in the post-world world, 1956.
And it is all about rebellion and progress.
(soft music)
Obviously, it speaks to his mindset and his taste
and the way that he likes to conduct himself in the world
and the way that he sees other people
and interacts with them.
You are so sweet with your little paw.
I also love this because it says right here,
"Rebellion and progress,"
and this is the man who's bringing a bottle of wine
and a thing of bread and the "Wayne's World" DVD
to the top of the Alps.
And anytime you can expose yourself to,
you know, established influential ways of thought,
it's always interesting to read stuff like this.
Apparently there's a quote,
this guy's quote which you're gonna say right now.
- [Man] "The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free that your existence
is an act of rebellion."
- The quote in this
is the opening line of "Wayne's World." (woman laughs)
So it sounds like there's a real theme and
that quote makes perfect sense, right?
This guy is saying like, "I'm gonna be the most free
and uninhibited person that I can be
as an act of rebellion to the confines of society."
I say that as a salaried employee
who is in fact confined by society, (woman laughs)
and by him.
Okay, so the last item and then
we really do have to crack this bottle.
Yeah, you want crack this?
Okay, what time is it?
It's what time? We can drink. It's two, three, four.
- [Woman] (inaudible) in France.
- It's eight o'clock. - [Woman] In France they
- Yes. - start drinking at noon.
- Exactly. In France, they start drinking at noon
and it is actually 8:00 pm.
And then the last item, while we're waiting for our wine,
the last item is
what looks like a sun sort of inside of a volcano.
Oh, it's a record.
(gentle music)
The record's called "Magma"
by an artist called Gojira Music.
This is a very well-known,
environmentally progressive French death metal band
that he listens to, to get his head in the game.
Because if you're gonna climb some bad-ass mountains
or go fast down a bad-ass mountain,
you need to be in the right mindset
and listen to some existential death metal
by environmentally conscious French people.
I think I'm gonna be turning 30 next month
and I'm very eager to introduce
existential French death metal into my routine
to see if that maybe helps me
with some of my own existential dread.
I do this thing where I feel like I'll be quiet
and I'll just hear this little whining noise
every now and then,
and I won't know what it is.
Oh, that's right it's you.
That was my joke about how Noodle
and my subconscious have become one.
There's one more thing.
Okay, there's another thing to go, aah!
(woman laughs)
It's a shiv.
This is like a hiking pick.
This is like a full ice pick.
(gentle music)
For some reason, I didn't think you could buy these.
Obviously, you can, of course you...
Sorry, I grew up next to a Dick's Sporting Goods, too,
but I guess I just always thought these were like
something that you only buy in like base camps.
You know, I guess I never thought
that you could just kind of like go on Amazon
and be like, "I need a Corsica ice pick.
Oh, in green."
It's awesome, so if you're someone who wants to go,
I don't know if you're looking to go base jumping
or anything, but if if you're into climbing, right?
I know this is, you know, we're far away from
our rock ventures in Brooklyn.
But if you wanna go like pick your way through a mountain,
this is the correct.
Sorry, totally baffled by this, (woman laughs)
'cause it's like, you could tell when I've seen tools,
like things that I'm familiar with
and then things that I'm totally not familiar with.
Noodle, this is way beyond you.
So this is arguably the most tooliest tool
that he's put in this box.
And that's the first and last time I'll say that,
but it's true.
You are so sweet and you are not getting any more cheese.
This is my no cheese face.
I might have to give him some more cheese.
But anyway, so this was the box.
I could go on forever 'cause I'm so excited by this stuff.
I've never heard of a lot of these,
like I've never heard of these musicians.
And I think I'm kind of a dumb (beep)
'cause I've never heard of this philosopher.
And both of these guys in the room with me was like,
"Oh yeah, you mean him,
the quote to 'Wayne's World,' him blah blah blah."
So I don't know.
Matthias, he's a wonderful guy.
He's a super, super, super interesting person.
We're so grateful that he took the time
to curate this box for us.
Whether you are someone who started a business
in your garage or on top of a mountain,
it's really cool to see all the different ways
that these different entrepreneurs
have gone about coming to their success.
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From my ice pick and me, thank you for watching (laughs)
and I'll see you next week.
(gentle music)
(dog barks)