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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.76,0:00:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to first tell you something that\Nin my grandmother
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.52,0:00:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would've elicited a five-oy alarm:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.29,0:00:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oy-oy-oy-oy-oy."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.57,0:00:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.75,0:00:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here it is ...\Nare you ready?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.52,0:00:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.73,0:00:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have stage IV lung cancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.27,0:00:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I know, "poor me."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.60,0:00:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't feel that way.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.86,0:00:24.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm so OK with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.38,0:00:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And granted, I have certain advantages --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.54,0:00:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not everybody can take\Nso cavalier an attitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.22,0:00:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have young children.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.36,0:00:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a grown daughter who's\Nbrilliant and happy and wonderful.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.67,0:00:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have huge financial stress.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.71,0:00:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My cancer isn't that aggressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.74,0:00:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's kind of like\Nthe Democratic leadership --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.99,0:00:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.70,0:00:50.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not convinced it can win.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.59,0:00:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's basically just sitting there,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.26,0:00:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting for Goldman Sachs\Nto give it some money.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.62,0:00:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.66,0:01:00.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.57,0:01:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, and the best thing of all --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.43,0:01:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a major accomplishment\Nunder my belt.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.92,0:01:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.10,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't even know it until someone\Ntweeted me a year ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.02,0:01:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here's what they said:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.27,0:01:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You are responsible
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.52,0:01:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the pussification\Nof the American male."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.04,0:01:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.89,0:01:25.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.77,0:01:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not that I can take\Nall the credit, but ...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.59,0:01:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.86,0:01:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what if you don't have my advantages?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.81,0:01:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only advice I can give you\Nis to do what I did:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.51,0:01:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make friends with reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.63,0:01:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You couldn't have a worse relationship\Nwith reality than I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the get-go,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.52,0:01:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't even attracted to reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.38,0:01:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they'd had Tinder when I met reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.11,0:01:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have swiped left
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.32,0:01:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the whole thing would have been over.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.34,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.03,0:02:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And reality and I --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.04,0:02:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't share the same values,\Nthe same goals --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.46,0:02:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.49,0:02:10.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be honest, I don't have goals;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.21,0:02:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have fantasies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.39,0:02:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're exactly like goals\Nbut without the hard work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.10,0:02:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.08,0:02:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.53,0:02:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not a big fan of hard work,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.80,0:02:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know reality --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.72,0:02:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's either push, push, push, push, push
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.71,0:02:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through its agent,\Nthe executive brain function --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.05,0:02:33.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the "yays" of dying:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.62,0:02:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my executive brain function\Nwon't have me to kick around anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.27,0:02:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.34,0:02:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But something happened
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.67,0:02:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that made me realize
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.90,0:02:53.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that reality may not be reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.57,0:02:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what happened was,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.11,0:02:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I basically wanted reality\Nto leave me alone --
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.60,0:03:02.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I wanted to be left alone\Nin a nice house
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.61,0:03:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a Wolf range\Nand Sub-Zero refrigerator ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.40,0:03:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,private yoga lessons --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.78,0:03:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I ended up with\Na development deal at Disney.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.53,0:03:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one day I found myself\Nin my new office
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.01,0:03:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Two Dopey Drive --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.35,0:03:21.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.36,0:03:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which reality thought\NI should be proud of ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.47,0:03:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.64,0:03:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm staring at the present\Nthey sent me to celebrate my arrival --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.07,0:03:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the Lalique vase or the grand piano\NI've heard of other people getting,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.19,0:03:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but a three-foot-tall,\Nstuffed Mickey Mouse
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.57,0:03:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.61,0:03:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a catalog, in case I wanted\Nto order some more stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.49,0:03:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that didn't jive with my aesthetic.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.52,0:03:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.58,0:03:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I looked up in the catalog
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.35,0:03:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see how much\Nthis three-foot-high mouse cost,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.73,0:03:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here's how it was described ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.60,0:03:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Life-sized."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.96,0:04:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.82,0:04:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's when I knew.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.88,0:04:07.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reality wasn't "reality."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.30,0:04:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reality was an imposter.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.94,0:04:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I dived into quantum physics\Nand chaos theory
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.46,0:04:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try to find actual reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.63,0:04:18.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've just finished a movie --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.30,0:04:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yes, finally finished --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.52,0:04:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about all that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.73,0:04:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I won't go into it here,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.06,0:04:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anyway, it wasn't until\Nafter we shot the movie,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.55,0:04:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I broke my leg\Nand then it didn't heal,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.63,0:04:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so then they had to do\Nanother surgery a year later,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.10,0:04:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then that took a year --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.49,0:04:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two years in a wheelchair,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.77,0:04:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's when I came\Ninto contact with actual reality:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.75,0:04:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limits.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.60,0:04:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those very limits I'd spent\Nmy whole life denying
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.65,0:04:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pushing past and ignoring
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.47,0:04:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were real,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.06,0:04:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had to deal with them,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.42,0:04:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they took imagination,\Ncreativity and my entire skill set.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.46,0:05:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It turned out I was great\Nat actual reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.29,0:05:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't just come to terms with it,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.03,0:05:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fell in love.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.65,0:05:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I should've known,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.13,0:05:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given my equally shaky\Nrelationship with the zeitgeist ...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.17,0:05:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll just say, if anyone\Nis in the market for a Betamax --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.39,0:05:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.78,0:05:22.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should have known that the moment\NI fell in love with reality,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.66,0:05:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest of the country would decide\Nto go in the opposite direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.96,0:05:28.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.30,0:05:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'm not here to talk about Trump\Nor the alt-right or climate-change deniers
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.86,0:05:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even the makers of this thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.28,0:05:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I would have called a box,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.17,0:05:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except that right here, it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.08,0:05:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is not a box."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.79,0:05:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.33,0:05:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're gaslighting me.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.49,0:05:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.18,0:05:53.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.70,0:05:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I do want to talk about
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.46,0:06:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a personal challenge to reality
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.60,0:06:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I take personally,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.27,0:06:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to preface it\Nby saying that I absolutely love science.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.32,0:06:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have this --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.72,0:06:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not a scientist myself --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.71,0:06:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but an uncanny ability to understand\Neverything about science,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.55,0:06:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except the actual science --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.46,0:06:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.48,0:06:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is math.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.70,0:06:30.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the most outlandish concepts\Nmake sense to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.97,0:06:34.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The string theory;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.38,0:06:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea that all of reality emanates\Nfrom the vibrations of these teeny --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.57,0:06:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call it "The Big Twang."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.51,0:06:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.40,0:06:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wave-particle duality:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.43,0:06:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the idea that one thing\Ncan manifest as two things ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.09,0:06:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.27,0:06:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That a photon can manifest\Nas a wave and a particle
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.11,0:06:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coincided with my deepest intuitions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.50,0:06:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people are good and bad,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.20,0:06:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ideas are right and wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.32,0:07:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freud was right about penis envy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.62,0:07:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was wrong about who has it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.23,0:07:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.84,0:07:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.39,0:07:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.65,0:07:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.68,0:07:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's this slight\Nvariation on that,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.10,0:07:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is reality looks like two things,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.81,0:07:22.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it turns out to be the interaction\Nof those two things,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.99,0:07:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like space -- time,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.16,0:07:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass -- energy
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.83,0:07:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and life and death.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.44,0:07:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I don't I understand --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.100,0:07:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I simply just don't understand
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.09,0:07:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mindset of people who are out\Nto "defeat death" and "overcome death."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.48,0:07:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.10,0:07:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you defeat death\Nwithout killing off life?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.54,0:07:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't make sense to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.78,0:07:48.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also have to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.73,0:07:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find it incredibly ungrateful.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.53,0:07:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, you're given\Nthis extraordinary gift --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.32,0:07:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life --
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.72,0:08:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's as if you had asked Santa\Nfor a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.41,0:08:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you had gotten\Na salad spinner instead.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.67,0:08:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, it's the beef --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.04,0:08:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beef with it is that it comes\Nwith an expiration date.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.89,0:08:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death is the deal breaker.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.95,0:08:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't get that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.13,0:08:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.30,0:08:17.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me, it's disrespectful.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.97,0:08:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's disrespectful to nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.40,0:08:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea that we're going\Nto dominate nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.90,0:08:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to master nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.11,0:08:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nature is too weak\Nto withstand our intellect --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.88,0:08:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no, I don't think so.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.06,0:08:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think if you've actually read\Nquantum physics as I have --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.50,0:08:39.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I read an email\Nfrom someone who'd read it, but --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.40,0:08:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.29,0:08:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.56,0:08:48.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we don't live in Newton's\Nclockwork universe anymore.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.42,0:08:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a banana peel universe,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.65,0:08:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we won't ever be able\Nto know everything
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.35,0:08:56.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or control everything
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.02,0:08:58.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or predict everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.53,0:09:00.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nature is like a self-driving car.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.76,0:09:04.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best we can be is like\Nthe old woman in that joke --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.12,0:09:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if you've heard it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.25,0:09:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An old woman is driving
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.60,0:09:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with her middle-aged daughter\Nin the passenger seat,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.85,0:09:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mother goes\Nright through a red light.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.28,0:09:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the daughter doesn't want to say\Nanything that makes it sound like,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.48,0:09:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You're too old to drive,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.19,0:09:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so she didn't say anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.03,0:09:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the mother\Ngoes through a second red light,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.78,0:09:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the daughter,\Nas tactfully as possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.17,0:09:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,says, "Mom, are you aware
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.35,0:09:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you just went through\Ntwo red lights?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.62,0:09:34.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the mother says, "Oh, am I driving?"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.63,0:09:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.84,0:09:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.23,0:09:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So ...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.00,0:09:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now, I'm going to take a mental leap,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.18,0:09:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is easy for me because\NI'm the Evel Knievel of mental leaps;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.09,0:09:55.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my license plate says,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.91,0:09:58.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Cogito, ergo zoom."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.07,0:10:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope you're willing\Nto come with me on this,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.46,0:10:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my real problem with the mindset\Nthat is so out to defeat death
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.11,0:10:11.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is if you're anti-death,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.89,0:10:14.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which to me translates as anti-life,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.31,0:10:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which to me translates as anti-nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.20,0:10:21.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it also translates to me as anti-woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.35,0:10:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because women have long been\Nidentified with nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.68,0:10:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my source on this is Hannah Arendt,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.95,0:10:31.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the German philosopher who wrote\Na book called "The Human Condition."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.17,0:10:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in it, she says that classically,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.63,0:10:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work is associated with men.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.32,0:10:40.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Work is what comes out of the head;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.56,0:10:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what we invent,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.86,0:10:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's what we create,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.41,0:10:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's how we leave our mark upon the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.43,0:10:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whereas labor is associated with the body.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.90,0:10:54.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's associated with the people\Nwho perform labor
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.72,0:10:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or undergo labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.92,0:10:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.66,0:11:03.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mindset that denies that,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.81,0:11:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that denies that we're in sync\Nwith the biorhythms,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.15,0:11:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cyclical rhythms of the universe,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.26,0:11:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not create a hospitable\Nenvironment for women
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.94,0:11:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or for people associated with labor,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.40,0:11:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.94,0:11:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that we associate\Nas descendants of slaves,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.38,0:11:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or people who perform manual labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.84,0:11:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's how it looks\Nfrom a banana-peel-universe point of view,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.58,0:11:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my mindset which I call\N"Emily's universe."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.81,0:11:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.32,0:11:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am incredibly grateful for life,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.59,0:11:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't want to be immortal.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.13,0:11:52.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no interest in having\Nmy name live on after me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.17,0:11:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I don't want it to,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.38,0:11:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's been my observation
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.06,0:11:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that no matter how nice and how brilliant
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.80,0:12:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or how talented you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.44,0:12:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50 years after you die, they turn on you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.08,0:12:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:04.58,0:12:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I have actual proof of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.12,0:12:10.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A headline from the Los Angeles Times:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.37,0:12:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Anne Frank: Not so nice after all."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.53,0:12:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.82,0:12:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, I love being in sync
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.21,0:12:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the cyclical rhythms of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.75,0:12:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what's so extraordinary about life:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.04,0:12:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a cycle of generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.26,0:12:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,degeneration,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.69,0:12:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regeneration.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.32,0:12:36.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I" am just a collection of particles
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.24,0:12:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is arranged into this pattern,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.14,0:12:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then will decompose and be available,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.93,0:12:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of its constituent parts, to nature,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.50,0:12:46.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reorganize into another pattern.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.78,0:12:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, that is so exciting,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.26,0:12:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it makes me even more grateful\Nto be part of that process.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.33,0:12:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.08,0:13:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I look at death now from the point of view\Nof a German biologist,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.14,0:13:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andreas Weber,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.62,0:13:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who looks at it as part\Nof the gift economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.25,0:13:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're given this enormous gift -- life,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.05,0:13:13.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you enrich it as best you can,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.42,0:13:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you give it back.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.02,0:13:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, Auntie Mame\Nsaid, "Life is a banquet" --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.38,0:13:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, I've eaten my fill.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.13,0:13:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have had an enormous appetite for life,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.42,0:13:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've consumed life,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.67,0:13:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in death, I'm going to be consumed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.33,0:13:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going into the ground\Njust the way I am,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.80,0:13:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there, I invite every microbe
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.78,0:13:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and detritus-er
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.16,0:13:38.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and decomposer
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.33,0:13:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have their fill --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.52,0:13:42.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they'll find me delicious.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.10,0:13:43.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.33,0:13:44.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.58,0:13:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the best thing about my attitude,\NI think, is that it's real.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.65,0:13:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.100,0:13:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can observe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.17,0:13:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It actually happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.66,0:13:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, maybe not my enriching the gift,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.40,0:14:00.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know about that --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.18,0:14:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my life has certainly\Nbeen enriched by other people.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.77,0:14:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By TED,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.00,0:14:08.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which introduced me\Nto a whole network of people
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.18,0:14:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have enriched my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.89,0:14:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Tricia McGillis,\Nmy website designer,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.10,0:14:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's working with my wonderful daughter
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.49,0:14:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take my website\Nand turn it into something
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.06,0:14:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where all I have to do is write a blog.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.97,0:14:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have to use\Nthe executive brain function ...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.49,0:14:28.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ha, ha, ha, I win!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.09,0:14:29.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.22,0:14:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am so grateful to you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.85,0:14:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't want to say, "the audience,"
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.40,0:14:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I don't really see it\Nas we're two separate things.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.83,0:14:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of it in terms\Nof quantum physics, again.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.00,0:14:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, quantum physicists\Nare not exactly sure what happens
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.32,0:14:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the wave becomes a particle.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.94,0:14:55.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are different theories --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.51,0:14:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collapse of the wave function,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.15,0:14:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decoherence --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.33,0:15:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're all agreed on one thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.07,0:15:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that reality comes into being\Nthrough an interaction.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.41,0:15:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Voice breaking) So do you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.63,0:15:10.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every audience I've ever had,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.99,0:15:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,past and present.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.51,0:15:17.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you so much for making my life real.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.51,0:15:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.65,0:15:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.82,0:15:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.31,0:15:22.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.50,0:15:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.58,0:15:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.76,0:15:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.81,0:15:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.