Speaker B would invite chef Thomas Keller for his influence on modern cooking, George Washington for casual conversation about early America, and Marcus Aurelius to discuss Stoic philosophy. The conversation touches on how modern conveniences like instant delivery have made us less resourceful than past generations.
If you could sit down with any chef, any leader, any historical figure, I mean living or dead, and have dinner, who would it be?
So chef, I would say Thomas Keller.
Okay.
For sure. He's like kind of paved the industry.
Yeah, yeah.
Any historical, probably George Washington.
Oh, that'd be cool.
Yeah, probably just like him, you know, he was so young when he like discovered America, just like shooting the shit with him over a beer.
I always made a joke, I would like to— Marcus Aurelius. That, yeah, yeah, I just thought because that Stoic philosophy, I just like to pick his brain.
Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, just like understand like what their mindsets were back in, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Uh, there you go. You know, they have a different mindset than— oh yeah, we have it made here. We have everything, you know, on our fingertips. We can order, um, food and it come to you within 20 minutes. You know, we can order anything, really, a package, and it comes to you in 24 hours. Um, they had to really be resourceful and really like fight. And, um, you know, under— like, they had a different perspective. So I would like to pick their brain on, you know, how to be more resourceful.
Oh, very cool.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
