My boat captain yesterday, Minnesotan Seth Feider, is piloting Dave Mercer today. They pulled up next to us, so I asked Feider, “In terms of volume of talking, please compare your boat mate yesterday, me, to your boat mate today, Mercer. Twenty percent more talking by Mercer, 90 percent more?”
Feider didn’t hesitate long, “10x more,” he said. “Easily.”
Mercer attributed that to the fact that Feider and I were following Mike Iaconelli yesterday, who moved 52 time, not much time for talking. “If you two had stayed in one place more often it’d be about the same.”
I know that not to be true. Mercer is a born talker.