Neville tells his audience about his close friend and dentist, with whom he regularly spends weekends at a pool in the Hollywood hills, who attended his lecture the previous Friday — his first visit of the year. The next day at the pool, the friend admitted that while he loved the opening story about the woman who revised her eye doctor's diagnosis, Neville had completely lost him once the talk turned to the material about David, despite the man's usual love of a good challenge on the golf course or on horseback.