And the depiction of the industry in Lukrum Industries is really incredibly spot on-- in the way it's written, Budapest has now become a very popular place to make movies, and many movies that you think are British or American are actually made in Budapest these days.
Thank you so much for coming today. And in the Budapest park, envisioned the engine.
He directed "Cabin in the Woods." He wrote chunks of "Cloverfield." He was one of the staff writers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." It's in Budapest, and it's like one of the biggest soundstages in the world.
To get more information about how all sorts of electric motors and electric machines work, he worked for several Edison companies in different cities. First in Budapest, where helps install a telephone exchange, then he goes to Paris, helps install electric lights. He does such a good job that he's transferred to the New York offices of the Edison company.
And after the war, the borders shifted, and the places they were born became part of other countries. And they moved to Budapest where they met, and they fell in love, and they married, and had a daughter-- my older sister-- and made a living. They tried to live an ordinary life.
Because that's all that really mattered. He went back to Budapest. And then for a year or so, he was able to live.
One of the people who appreciated this book was Charles Simonyi from Xerox PARC, right across the street here. And thatís Charles in Budapest, Hungary with a holographic bust of Johnny Von Neumann, who is a national hero in Hungary. And it was Charles who said, ìGeorge, you know you should go dig this stuff out.î He sort of sensed that I had a passion for excavating digital archeology.
Oh. But your journey began long before the cube, even before your early days studying and teaching both sculpture and architecture in Budapest. Now, how did your father's work as a glider engineer, and also, your mother's creative and artistic influences,
don't know about the shopping portals. And you see things like Budapest with flights on BA with two nights in a five star hotel 139 pounds a person
And the depiction of the industry in Lukrum Industries is really incredibly spot on-- in the way it's written, So we unfortunately lost our spot in Budapest.
And to give you an example, he envisioned his revolutionary electric motor-- the thing that made the electricity industry possible-- he envisioned it while walking through a Budapest park quoting Goethe's "Faust." And then he picked up a stick and drew a little design of it in the sand. It's this mix of humanities and science that I think we are somewhat missing today.
There was an educated community and people who had never gone-- couple of years of elementary school discussing the latest varieties of Freudian psychoanalysis, the last concert of the Budapest string quartet and so on. There was worker education that took place, a lot of it through the unions.
work from um a very personal place um I uh was uh uh born in Budapest in 1954 my parents were survivors of the Holocaust as children we escaped from Hungary in 1956 the year of the Hungarian Revolution and came to the United States
And the problem came back. By the time we got to Budapest, the problem was pretty constant, and I was kind of in denial. Thinking, I don't know what's going on.
I'm trying to listen through Katy, and all of these bags. We got to a bike shop in Budapest, just as it was closing, and they said come back in on Monday morning. And Katie and I were like, no, we don't want to give up a whole weekend.
Colonel Collins. All right. So on 9/11 I was in Budapest, Hungary as part of an interagency exercise that we were working over there. I remember somebody walking in the room-- and this is prior to having satellite TV everywhere, so we didn't have TV screens all over the wall--
It's weird that our court system that has "in God we trust" on the money and wants to put the ten commandments An American man born in Budapest, a Jew at a time of immigrants.
we would go and travel from London to Cairo to Tangier to uh Budapest Overland or you know there's some boats in there obviously too um and uh so I got a I got a a strong attachment to the road and to
And they never came to North Africa. And he saved tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest.
And the depiction of the industry in Lukrum Industries is really incredibly spot on-- in the way it's written, There's $15 million worth of sets in Budapest right now.
Thank you so much for coming today. He came because he had been installing Edison phone systems in Budapest and Paris.
set the scene we were in a restaurant in Budapest and and also in Hungary most people think he's dead um because he's
subway stations are Rubik's Cube themed in in some parts of Budapest like there are you know are murals and things and I
And then, Russia also signed the Budapest Agreement back in the early '90s, committing to Ukraine sovereignty, very specifically.
for our guests here today one of them came all the way from Budapest Hungary actually uh from a gentleman named or I
There, Julius König, a respected professor from Budapest, announced he had proof that Cantor's well ordering theorem was wrong.
He directed "Cabin in the Woods." He wrote chunks of "Cloverfield." He was one of the staff writers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." They shot the whole film in Bud-- well, they shot all the studio work in Budapest, Hungary at this huge, huge soundstage called Korda Studios.
He directed "Cabin in the Woods." He wrote chunks of "Cloverfield." He was one of the staff writers on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I'm afraid of flying, and I didn't want to go to Budapest.
day before the interview I didn't know it was going to happen I was in Budapest and I was just waiting I was like I
true you know or he could have you know he owns one of the hills of Budapest which is not true um although I was told
so like if you go to the the castle District in Hungary which is the sort of oldest historic Center of of Budapest
designed uh gliders and planes some of which Rubik has told me you can still see flying above the skies in Budapest
you know, sense of humor. Thatís Princeton, thatís a cocktail party in the 1930ís.So all these people are from Budapest. Thatís HP Robertson who at that time was teaching quantum physics to Alan Turing, Alan Turing was his student and, you know, I was there as a child, I donít ever remember meeting
So again, a really fun example from our health care chapter in the book goes all the way to Budapest in Hungary,
architect before personally. Accident. I don't know how it happened, because there are several architects all around the world, and in Hungary, as well, and in Budapest, as well, many of them. But accidentally. That was not, no one nearby.
And then it says, this person who's named Lloyd Roberts has moved from Nobu Fifty Seven and is the executive chef of Nobu Budapest, then
There was one point in history in which Persepolis was the most innovative city in the world, one point in history in which was Paris, one point in which it was Budapest.
Today with us is George Friedman, an American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur. His newest book is "Flash Points-- The Emerging Crisis in Europe." Mr. Friedman was born in 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. He has authored several books, including "The Next 100 Years," "The Next Decade," "America's Secret War," "The Intelligence Edge," "The Coming
And that was exactly the point where the Soviets staged their counterattack against the German Sixth Army. My father then walked back in the winter of '42, '43, to Budapest. A distance of a thousand miles through a bitter cold winter, poorly clothed.
There at a wedding with his, uh, his cousinís wedding. This stuff is all in it because so much of understanding why this happened and how it happened is that, what was going on in Budapest between World War I and World War II, why did all these, you know, why did Johnny Von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and Paul Erdos, they all came out of the same group of people in Hungary and ended