invites us to laugh at Ali, a gullible Arab being attacked by hundreds of angry Mt. Strookoo Cuckoos. Dr. Seuss's work is both racist and opposes racism and does both in the same decade. These characters and the cat's minstrel ancestry reveal Seuss's racial unconscious, indicating how his imagination resuscitated and revised early 20th century and 19th century stereotypes.
And one of the things about that is that there's tremendous stigma around that and a kind of horror because of the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." How many people have seen this film? It came out in 1975.
That was absolutely forbidden. The Germans invented the cuckoo clock.
Yeah. If you had told me right after law school that I was going to be in the food space, I would say, you're cuckoo. I mean, it never was part of my dream growing up. I was a magician.
Aiden Walker took that a step further recently and he his his theory it's it's somewhat colorful is that it's like the cuck internet theory. Say more. Yes. I will have to say more.
And do you want to supersize it? It's just going to make us cuckoo.
And yeah, you laugh. And they actually use the word cuckold, but I thought that was really stupid. My closest life partner, my longest life partnership who raised my daughter with me for eight years, was a gay man.
But what I'm trying to say is that you cannot rid economics of politics. is living in a cloud cuckoo land," which is where she was living.
Usually, in the past, African knowledge has been dismissed. Oh, this is cuckoo. That can't happen.
It won all five Academy Awards with Jack Nicholson playing this. It's from a novel by Ken Kesey called "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Anyway, you will never forget the scene of him having ECT without any anesthesia, without the muscle relaxants that were used even at the time, and being held down by six attendants and his body jumping and convulsing.
I'm going to try again to ask my question now. I've been describing it as "Star Trek" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in a submarine.
And the reason is he's left with no time and no water at the end of day to water the roots of the tree. You and I look at that and say this guy's kind of cuckoo. He's a little insane.
The man's body jumped, and he cried out. are presented? So we've got "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Frankenstein," much more recently "Homeland," which slightly says in the scene--
I'm not sure if you've heard of him. He's written three novels, the first of which was called "The Cuckoo's Calling." "The Cuckoo's Calling" was very well reviewed. Sold horribly. So it was one of these critical successes that was disappearing.
That was absolutely forbidden. 500 years of peace and democracy, and what have they brought the world but the cuckoo clock?
At the end of the week, they deployed those features. In a great book he wrote on entrepreneurship and innovation, he has a chapter on the Cuckoo Effect.
OK. It's not-- no. And that gets translated generally, or this person said she chose to translate it as "cabron," a cuckold, because that was more disdainful.
And he goes so far into Andy Kaufman and his alter ego, Tony Clifton, that Jim disappears. And Milos Forman, one of the greatest directors ever, who did "Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus," is, like, cowed by this Tony Clifton character who's, like, really gruff, kind of lounge singer type.
Sold horribly. So it was one of these critical successes that was disappearing. But it emerged, I think, by happenstance that the real author of "The Cuckoo's Calling" is J.K. Rowling, and the book exploded. Bestsellers. What's going on there?
At the end of the week, they deployed those features. The third thing we had to deal with was what Peter Drucker, who invented management-- the concept of management-- called the Cuckoo Effect.