"Making Pie" - And Making the Case for Free Enterprise.
The 2-minute vid above is called "Making Pie" and involves the talents of Reason TV producer Paul Detrick (in the bowtie and suspenders) and Reason TV alum Ted Balaker (whose wife and business partner Courtney Balaker directed the short).
"Making Pie" is a finalist in the American Enterprise Institute's 2012 video contest, which asked contestants to create a 120-second segment that illustrates how
- Free enterprise promotes earned success, which is the substance of lasting happiness.
- Free enterprise promotes real fairness, based on merit and hard work.
- Free enterprise does the most good for the most vulnerable by supplying both ample charity and unmatched opportunity.
The winner of the contest gets $40,000 and second and third-place finishers pull down $7,500 and $2,500 respectively. For more information and to watch all the finalist videos, go here.
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That pie? You didn't bake that.
What? No regulators? How unrealistic can you get! Did the Kochtopus put you up to this?
Man, I love blueberry pie.
It's really amazing how things can happen more or less spontaneously, without central direction. Even pies.
Well, ProL, would you remember to add cinnamon and lemon rind without central authority? Or me?
Don't pollute my blueberry pie with your impurities.
Pure blueberry pie is an elemental impossibility, ProL. Only a madman would try it!
No. It can be done. All I need is a racially pure blueberry and the Lebensraum in which to wachsen it! Heil Elisha Case!
Prole scum!
Pie is just deep dish pizza with fruit!
I can't abide someone who doesn't like pie.
I had apple pie last night to tide me over while I was cooking meat.
Did you make your own crust?
Quite honestly, and I'm not joking here, my mom made the pie and sent it to me. All I did was bake it on Sunday.
Nothing is more acceptable than a homemade pie made from scratch by Mom.
I think we now know who Auric Demonocles' Dad is.
Sadly my dad does not have the capacity to set up a website, but just baking stuff my mom had prepared earlier was his strategy for making sure we didn't starve when she was gone somewhere. That or cereal.
Was anyone else expecting something clever?
*ouch*
...and yes.
Do they have the proper licenses and permits?
How do we know that the pie is really pie if they have not been properly trained and inspected?
Besides, without the government making the roads and bridges that the pies and ingredients travel on, they could never have baked any of that on their own.
Nope. Totally unrealistic.
Yeah, where are the government inspectors to make sure they're not baking poison pies?
I'm sure that Bloomburg would be interested to know if there are trans-fats in the crust, or if they used too much sugar in the filling.
Can't allow unhealthy products to be sold to willing buyers.
They just don't know what's good for themselves.
What Captain Subtext heard Bloomberg say: "They had the sheer genius to elect me, but other than that, they're completely stupid."
I'm sure that Bloomburg would be interested to know if they used too much sugar in the filling.
Bloomburg's cool; the pies are standard size.
That oven you baked the pie in? You didn't build that.
Should have gone for artisanal mayonnaise.
Blueberry pie is da debil!
The GOP ate blueberry pie or something
Leave blueberry pie alone!
Come on ProL, blueberry pie is a creation of well to do white racists. As such, they should be banned immediately and all pies should be mandated to be a choice between sweet tater pie and chicken pot pie.
I'm seceding from the union if they take away my blueberry pie. I don't care what the reason is.
Is that a clip-on tie? Never. Wear. A clip-on.
This... was a finalist?
First time I clicked on that video, they screamed, "PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" until I rebooted. Not since Twin Peaks had I seen actors that enthusiastic about pie. Do I dare try running that video again? Here goes.
It did it again. So far I far prefer "Paperwork", the video that doesn't crash my computer.