Thank you doc. We are talking to george burns. Rodney dangerfield, michael constantine, and Shana Alexander will be with us. The special is tomorrow. Its on cbs. It follows bing, doesnt it . Yes, bing crosby. We made a deal between us. Hes not going to fool around with red rose rag and im not going to touch white christmas. [ laughter ] you mentioned the show. You talk about acting a little bit as you do in your book. You said you didnt find it too difficulty. You just listen and react to what people say. I think so. I think its much tougher to do what we are doing right now, or standing up and doing a monologue. Youve got nobody to help you. Youre on your own, you know . And you cant do it over. Thats it. But when you are doing a movie, you get up and do a scene, if its no good they do it over, you do it again. And then youve got Walter Matthau on one side, Dick Benjamin on the other. Were there any scenes you had to do, say, more than two or three times . Not me. [ applause ] i lie a
I am here to offer special thanks to steve, sitting over here, who is the other instigator and driving force of this conference. Steve wrote an enormously rich, informative biography and a sort of career study of lenny bruce, done in 2005 at the university of paris. As a result of his research in that respect, he got to meet and know lenny bruces daughter, and it was really steve is adjusted to kitty steve who suggested to kitty that Brandeis University would be the ideal site for the papers of her father. None of us would be here without steves initiative and instigation, and i want to thank you for that. [applause] you will be hearing from steve later this morning as well as this afternoon, when he will be in conversation with kitty bruce. I was not privy to that conversation in which they suggested that brandies was the ideal site, but i want to start with what the argument might have been. We have the same initials as lenny bruce, that is the least significant feature. We are a som
Chicago and in 2005 went back to ethiopia. Talk about disobeying your parents. He wanted to become a farmer. The agriculture piece was interesting, you could leave medicine in the United States and work in agriculture, ethiopia and find yourself contributing, doing in some ways better, feeling more alive, more in charge, more influential, is really surprising to some people. He had 400 employees, drives five cars, white and two kids, gained a little weight, doing really well. Running a business, that is a really exciting dynamic for so many people like myself, first, Second Generation immigrants in the United States to realize your home country has opportunities your uniquely positioned to seize. That will be an essentials piece of effort thats story. We are out of time, but that is a fantastic place to leave it for now. This book is full of brilliant stories like that that wraps the anecdotal around the analytical strand. The book is the bright continent breaking rules and making chan
So i got the impression theyre going to the world series was the single most exciting thing that any human being could do. Ive always ate to go to the world serve. Of all the things i wanted to do, going to the world series was the most important thing to me. I never got to go. I had all these other wonderful experiences. I was sent to the olympics in 2000, and they went to the soccer world cup in korea and japan and lots of other important global sporting events. I was delighted to go to. But the one thing that bothered me was the world series. It so happens that almost exactly 10 years ago, 2003 season was coming to an end, a very good friend of mine, a guy named Keith Blackmore was a Sports Editor called me up at home. I was living in england. He said, have you been following whats going on in baseball . I said, have i ever . Because what was happening as the 2003 season was coming to close was that the two teams that have the most momentum going into the playoffs period with the ch
Jesus loves you my body, my choice . What does adam grant say now . Firing line with Margaret Hoover is made possible in part by. And by. Corporate funding is provided by. Adam grant, welcome to firing line. Delighted to be here. You wrote the mostread ticle on the New York Times website in 2021, in the midst of the covid19 pandemic. And the title, theres a name for that blah youre feeling. Its called languishing. You argued that americans were collectively feeling a sense of languishing, and that sensation of stagnation and emptiness could beelped by just naming it. Now that were in july of 2022, the pandemic is ongoing, inflation is high, gas prices are high, Political Polarization continues. Are Americans Still languishing . Or would you call it Something Else . Oh, thats an interesting question. I think i think a lot of people are still languishing, in part because of the circumstances youre describing, but also in part because languishing is a feature of the human condition. We us