[Video]: John Hodgman almost invested in Talde

Park Slope's resident humorist and classy mustache possessor John Hodgman was thisclose to investing in Talde, you guys. Actor Justin Long, the Mac to Hodgman's PC, initially proposed the idea to invest in Dale Talde's casual Asian-American restaurant located on 7th Avenue and 11th Street, which serves the best pad thai I've had in this neighborhood (it's the crispy oysters that do it for me). Ultimately both men decided not to invest, and despite Talde's raging success, you can't really blame them since, as Hodgman points out, only 20% of restaurants actually succeed (the Talde talk starts around the 1:43 mark).