L'esprit de l'escalier

[upbeat music] You know that feeling when you, like, leave an argument, or maybe it's a super tense salary negotiation, and then 10 minutes later, while you're driving home, you suddenly think of the absolute perfect thing to say?

Oh, yeah, the classic staircase wit.

It's that sinking feeling of being exactly, you know, five minutes too late to your own life.

Exactly.

Joe Biden was infirm," to even- You know what it is? Yeah.

It's like esprit de escalier.

She finally figured out- [laughs] ... her answer to The View.

Right.

yeah

off the back of that and something else completely unrelated related but not related to that it comes up to me in my brain time and time again it turns out there's a phrase for it it's a french phrase it's called l'esprit de l'escalier which i've completely murdered saying that l'esprit de l'escalier uh which means the spirit of the stairs or the spirit of the staircase and it's that feeling of walking out of somewhere down the stairs and being like damn I should have said it.

I should have said that thing.

When that person said that thing, I should have said that thing.