There's flounder genes in your tomatoes, whether you know it or not, because flounders are found that they can freeze, and they can thaw out. A flounder will live. "Oh, that's cool. Let's take that gene, put it in a tomato, and now we got frost-resistant tomatoes.” Whoo. 20 years later, we got Food Incorporated going on in our lives.
And when I got home and I had this block of time, I think usually what I might do is take a couple weeks and just sort of flounder and hang out with the family and see old friends. And I did all that.
to something at a young age. And they flounder or they say things. They'll come into my office and they'll say, well jeez, there's nothing left to do in the world.
four rungs down and um turns out we all generally we tend to eat from the order performes um tuna flounder all the things called SE bass um they're all from the order p fores and I came across this really devastating statistic which was that the order pers fores is the most species Rich order of vertebrates
out over the fact that there's no premarket safety testing on these things. There's flounder genes in your tomatoes, whether you know it or not, because flounders are found that they can freeze, and they can thaw out. A flounder will live. "Oh, that's cool. Let's take that gene, put it in a tomato, and now we got frost-resistant tomatoes.” Whoo.
But I didn't really know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I kind of floundered through school. I don't even know how I graduated, if I'm honest.
of development of vocal use in dolphins. I was just floundering around and they all ignored her and came and circled me and just all stood the same way I'm standing in the water
I lived in LA for a year. And I was really floundering . And what I really wanted to do in my life was travel and not work.
We watch their grades really closely. And if they start to flounder , we get on the kid or we get on the teacher or we have a meeting with the principal and we make sure they fill out their academic resume with plenty of extracurricular sports or violin or learning a language.
When the trawl-- this is the trawl, the net-- when it's being dragged along the sea floor, the reaction, the biological reaction, for haddock The cod and the yellow tail flounder go down here and they go outside the net.
Yeah, just sounded good. But maybe they'll reach out to a haddock or flounder .
So lame argument number one, for example, the one that I cannot get over is in baseball you are allowed, if you're a pitcher, to replace your ulnar collateral ligament to make good decisions that I feel I floundered for several years after.
called Alcoa. Alcoa is a big steel manufacturer, and at the time, when he first came on board, Alcoa wasn't doing too well. In fact, Alcoa was floundering . So Paul O'Neill was supposed to be the guy who was going to turn the entire thing around.
We were delighted with the amount. And then we were drowned in the amount and we had to flounder with it a while. We came up, we hope, with an optimum solution.
that he helped organize. - So how do we keep ourselves on the right side of the flourish-or-flounder balance?
Yeah. I-- so I now live in upstate New York. And then you put some, like-- I use flounder in the book, but any kind of flat, thin fish that will cook sort of quickly.
We start in the Middle East and the Trump administration's attempts to revive the floundering peace plan for
And I started to get the impression that they were at sea-- they were really floundering , or foundering, about this technology surge.
to build a business like that like all by my onesie and completely floundered
Stress is unmanageable. I'm floundering around on the floor trying to get from point A to point B. It just doesn't work.
that he helped organize. that's latent in nature and use it to help humanity flourish, or flounder .
So that moment that you just saw, even though I'm floundering for the words, that's actually-- that was all written as such.
I think I felt like a year, I was like-- I floundered for a year.
in in the book um part of when I was talking a little bit about being in that position of sort of floundering with the
So if we haven't actually planted those ideas strongly, then we're actually going to really flounder .
It's an interesting layer that I hadn't considered, the sort of, how much we flounder over choosing decisions and making decisions
You have a lot, a surplus. We still have a surplus on Georges Bank of haddock, but Georges Bank cod and yellow tail flounder are overfished and overfishing is occurring. Which means the fishermen want to target haddock and leave the cod and yellowtail to be.
Five hundred chefs later, you know, a few months later, sending out letters. Everybody's up in arms about their food, where it's coming from, how they can't answer the concerns of their customers anymore, because if you had an analogy to a flounder , how would I know if you were having a tomato salad today? I can't tell you that anymore.
Paul Graham, who started Y Combinator, suggested that he started working with those guys because his own startup sort of floundered .
You know, we're gonna look at how do we get some of these kids that are kinda floundering around, into really good things?
Yeah, just sounded good. But within that category, when you fish cod, you also have haddock and hake and cusk and ling, monk, skate, wolf, dog, eel, ray, pout, plaice, dab, flounder , witch,