Miranda Lambert's 75 Songs: The $4,000-an-Hour Math Check

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

1. 

   Vera BullockMiranda Lambert says she wrote about seventy-five songs after her divorce from Blake Shelton, and she first said that took a year.

2. 

   Vera BullockThen she corrected it to roughly the first four months. Ferris Halloran of Halloran Vesper Advisory bills four thousand dollars an hour and joins us.

3. 

   Vera BullockFerris, which is it?

4. FH

   Ferris HalloranBoth. She revised the timeline, the seventy-five stayed put, and that's the only part of this divorce that's billable.

5. 

   Vera BullockDid you just click a stopwatch?

6. FH

   Ferris HalloranYes. It's four thousand an hour, so I measure the sentences, and that was a billable observation too: you asked a question.

7. 

   Vera BullockShe said it was a really not fun time, and also magical. How do you read that?

8. FH

   Ferris HalloranI'd tell the client: the songs are delivered, the timeline is under review, and the feelings are out of scope.

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   Vera BullockI'd call that a scope revision with a double album attached.

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    Vera BullockThe record that followed had twenty-four tracks, and it came out in November twenty sixteen.

11. FH

    Ferris HalloranTwenty-four from seventy-five. That's a thirty-two percent yield. I'd bill four hours for that math, and I'd round up.

12. 

    Vera BullockYou'd round up?

13. FH

    Ferris HalloranAlways. Billable observation: nobody has ever disputed a rounded invoice. That click was for the previous sentence.

14. 

    Vera BullockVerdict, Ferris. Is the seventy-five-song timeline sound?

15. FH

    Ferris HalloranSound, with a footnote. Rating: four out of five invoices.

16. 

    Vera BullockMr. Halloran, ninety seconds at four thousand an hour. I believe we owe you for the stopwatch.