A few nights later, the two men took their wives to Johnny’s Café, a red-velvet steak joint, where Munger became so self-intoxicated at one of his own jokes that he slipped out of the booth and began rolling on the floor with laughter. When the Mungers returned to Los Angeles, the conversation continued in installments, the two men talking on the phone for an hour or two with increasing frequency. Buffett, once obsessed with Ping-Pong, had found something far more interesting. “Why are you paying so much attention to him?” Nancy asked her husband. “You don’t understand,” said Charlie. “That is
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