So I talked about chicken-- either fried or smothered. Fried fish. Now, I talked about catfish, and catfish is one of the most popular soul food items because catfish is so easy to raise.
hungry and you go, "Nope, no snack because I ate those chocolate chip cookies." And then you get home and it's dinner time and you say, "Well I'm pretty hungry but oh Fried foods, fatty meats, fatty snack foods, those are promoting inflammation in the body and our goal is to reduce the inflammation.
omelet. Excuse me, someone had the idea to make an omelet. The logic is that someone had some fried eggs, they broke them, and they made an omelet.Okay, it was flat, they filled it with
it's so versatile, and because it's so neutral, you can do almost anything with it. So, we had, like, faked chopped liver made from, from eggplants. Later on, all the rage were fried eggplants in especially Middle Eastern restaurants, sometimes with tahini or with yoghurt, but the current and most contemporary and in my opinion, the best way to cook eggplantsis to burn them, or flame roast them. This is the way to do it.
and to support capitalism as a social and economic system. Friedman struggles a bit more with how to justify capitalism, and he'll ultimately come down to freedom as his core value, his God, as he says. And so freedom does connect back to the individual.
and express these ideals purely. Friedman, although he didn't use this terminology, was much more half-a-loaf guy. You know, like, I'll take what I can get, and then I'll try to move to where I really want to be.
So, so he essentially said there should be levels on him. There should be this this this broad I mean, why not have Friedrich Merz say this is an unacceptable comment? Yeah, but he's unaccept- This person is unacceptable from the very beginning, from his whole He had made many statements, many actions. He can I don't
it's still framed and hanging in my office that that check for 25 bucks and the other one was Bud Friedman. But Friedman, who started the improv Hey, came to me one day and he says, What do you doing? New Year's Eve? I was 16 or 17 years old and I go, What do you think I'm doing?
And they blame the rise of Nazi Germany on the capitalist model of government. Friedrich von Hayek, who taught at the University of Chicago-- and mind you, he was a Viennese Jew. He had fled the Vienna that had been the center of the great Jewish intellectual Renaissance
fielding yost walking around the field telling his young quarterback benny friedman in his west virginia draw that's jost's west virginia draw about all the great things that had happened on the field pointing to the different spots on ferry field where various great michigan all-americans had done all
about a decade after friedman and i i had the great pleasure of hearing mr leibovitz tell me about friedman and how he essentially worshipped him when he leibovitz was a child and and how friedman was to the youth of glenville in that in
who's now in his mid to upper 90s i believe uh and who was very friendly with uh with friedman from the uh 1940s onward i would say and who himself mason was the uh editor of uh uh scholastic coach magazine a sort of how-to bible for athletic directors and
uh so you know getting back to my my initial question what made why was benny friedman so great those are some of the things and um none other than paul gallagher i'll go back to him again very succinctly and very powerfully
and his first coach benny uh believed was anti-semitic and he did give friedman a really tough time but fielding yost who had coached at michigan for the first 20 odd years of the 20th century and had stepped down just prior to freeman getting there
It's just you can get whatever you want and go there with everybody. Egg-fried rice, try it with shoyu.
Even being from New York with a big Caribbean culture, a big Dominican culture, I feel a lot of time the conversation of food is very stylised to tres golpe, mangú, and fried cheese, and salami, or mofongo, or rice, beans, and chicken or .. But I love that you had, for example, morir soñando, which is usually orange juice with milk, which sounds so weird when you have it and taste it--
So I talked about chicken-- either fried or smothered. becomes fried chicken. So cats like Thomas Jefferson and other people on a weekend breakfast, they would actually serve you fried chicken
This might be-- is this Jamie Oliver? With fried chicken? Yeah, when you started Belles.
so that each chickpea maintains integrity and it's got a little bit of bite left to it. and fried chicken. Just because you felt like eating donuts and coffee and fried chicken.
And as our program is-- I swear it's not overwhelming. the fried yuba as crunchiness.
because so much of our street food is deep fried . But fried food is something that we consume at every festive meal, whether it's battered and fried vegetables, or floured and fried zucchini, all sorts of croquettes, especially rice croquettes suppli-- so rissoto balls breaded and fried -- and, in the center of it all, the carciofi alla
So fried rice. I want that hit.
That fried -- and by the way, that $1.49 chicken is not fresh, nice chicken meat raised by Farmer Jones upstate
Korean fried chicken, as I know, we always make the coating.
vegetable fried rice and you added so much vegetable matter to the rice that it started to favor the vegetables you cross over,
Deep-fried mayo is to keep you large, living large.
My fried chicken wasn't as hot as it was last time.
Turkey fried ? I learned this earlier.
Ben Fried : Hi, Iím Ben Fried .
Ben Fried : Yeah, that would be a much shorter book.
Ben Fried : So, anyway, a little bit about Ed for those of you, who might not know, might not have heard about him.
Ben Fried : And, you know, perhaps not least the CIO of Google is also one of the interviews.
Ben Fried : Oh, I do.
Ben Fried : So one of the things Iím really excited about the opportunity to interview you is, unlike some of your previous works, yours
Ben Fried : Now are the differences in these IT organizations and CIO roles and functions of the organization age or culture or industry?
Ben Fried : So I guess given such diversity and differences in age companies, is there some kind of conventional path for these people that they follow to have gotten into the
Ben Fried : One of the surprising things that I saw was that Tony Scott, the CIO of Microsoft, previously of Disney and CTO of General Motors, or maybe divisional CTO of
Ben Fried : So you talked about kind of the surprises that you encountered in the book, in researching the book.
Ben Fried : What were the, I guess the, so it sounds like youíre saying that the biggest
Ben Fried : Now, on the subject of this cocktail party, Iíve hypothesized that it might actually not be such a spectacular event because I think a lot of people tend to think of
Ben Fried : Yeah, I mean, the next question that I have is one that I struggle with a lot.
Ben Fried : And heís sitting under a window contemplating what his approach to crime fighting will be and a bat flies through the enormous gothic window of his, of Wayne mansion.
Ben Fried : Whether thatís a deep comment on my own psyche or not, Iíll leave it to the audience to determine.
Ben Fried : I think the kind of existential question that I actually have is, you know, technology is such a fundamental source of disruption, right?
Ben Fried : They became established, right?
Ben Fried : Thatís fascinating, the kind of, the bureaucratic inertia is incredible, an incredible force isnít it, inside these large organizations.
Ben Fried : Howís that gonna happen?
Ben Fried : Wow. Ed Yourden: Thereís a metaphysical question.
Ben Fried : Yeah. Then all those algorithms become real important when you canít just rely on faster clock speed and slower dies, smaller dies, etcetera.
Ben Fried : As in we were a team in college, we wanna be a team at our first employer.