You'd just end up with something that didn't have the--it was missing the bottom line, the sort of gravely character that was going to sort of underpin it all.
The cameras roll and without missing a beat, he slips into his deranged millionaire persona, a character that has popped up a bit over the past few years, as Hodgman has wrapped up his trilogy of "complete world knowledge, " the last entry of which, "That is All, " was released in paperback and audiobook forms this week.