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I can't see the audience and I hate that.

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How many great grandparents are there
in the audience?

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I can't see anything.

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Okay, 
you probably wonder why I am sitting,

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the answer is,

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because I'm a great grandfather,

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not a good grandfather, 
a great grandfather.

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And everybody knows great grandparents
get to do any damn thing they please,

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including 
following my own grandfather's advice,

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which was whenever you give a talk 


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to thousands of people 
about Richard Feynman,

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sustain yourself. (laughter, applauds)

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This is an extremely slackXX operation,
and I'm a slackXX man,

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so I don't use these things.

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I decided when I said yes 
to do this thing

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that I really want to talk about is 
my friend Richard Feynman.

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I was one of the fortunate few 
that really get to know him,

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enjoy his presence. 


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And I'm going to tell you 
Richard Feynman I knew.

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I'm sure there are other people here
who can tell you Richard Feynman they knew,

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and it would probably be 
a different Richard Feynman.

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Richard Feynman is a very complex man.

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He was a man of many, many parts:

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he was of course, foremost, 
a very great scientist;

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he was an actor,
you saw him act --

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I also had the good fortune 
to be in those lectures--

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back in the balcony,
they were fantastic;

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he was a philosopher, 
he was a drum player,

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he was a teacher pAr excellence.

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Richard Feynman was also a showman,

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a normal showman, 
who was brash, irreverant,

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he was full of macho, 
a kind of macho one optism shape.

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He loved intellectual battle. 
He had a big ego.

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But the man had somehow a lot of room 
in the bottom,

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what I mean by that,
is a lot of room in my case,

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can't speak for anybody else,

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but in my case a lot of room 
for another big ego.

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While not as big as his, but,
fairly big.

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I always felt good to be with Feynman.

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It was always fun to be with him.

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He always made me feel smart.

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How can somebody like that 
make you feel smart?

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Somehow we did. He made me feel smart,
he made me feel he is smart.

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He made me feel we were both smart,
and two of us could solve any problem whatever.

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And in fact, sometimes 
we did do physics together.

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We never published papers together. 
But we did have a lot of fun.

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He love to win