February 11, 2023 • 9 mins
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(00:00):
Gold figure. That's right. Won'tyou take me to teh google down since
I joke between me and anyway?Oh well, I guess it's round table
time. Hang on, Camelot,Camelot, Camelot. It's only a model
(00:36):
the seas of a table. Onesecond loss. Let's not go to Camelot.
It is a silly place. Well, I tell you, it's been
(01:00):
a weird week here. It's beena weird night, weird night even.
Yeah, but you know, acouple months ago, I was intrigued by
watching the CBS Evening News and therewas a gentleman that they had interviewed and
he had decided that he had abig deal happened to him where he was
(01:22):
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and worked forCarnegie Mellon University. And you know,
most people when they retire and theyleave, they always have the last lecture,
a lecture that they send off,you know, from their fellow colleagues,
and then they leave and go offand to retirement or whatever. And
(01:44):
this particular person decided that that wassomething he wanted to do. But basically
he wanted to set it up assomething that he could leave for his wife
and children after his death, andof course it was titled The Last Lecture.
A whole bunch of people came toCarnegie Mellon to see him do his
lecture, and there were some people, for some reason whatever, they couldn't
(02:07):
make it. So they decided,no problem, We're going to put it
up on the website. We gota videotaped. You can come in anytime
you want and be able to watchit. Wow, that was just for
twenty people. It turns out thata lot of other people saw it too.
In fact, it ended up onYouTube and over ten million people have
(02:30):
viewed it around the world. Nowyou probably know what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about Randy Posh Pausch.He was forty seven years old, and
of course you probably even saw thedeal on Prime Time, which went a
little more into about it, andof course got so good that one of
(02:51):
the people from Carnegie Mellon was awriter collaborated with him and actually has a
book called The Last Lecture. Sadly, he died Friday at his home in
Chesapeake, Virginia, finally succumbing tothe cancer he had actually was told he'd
have five months. I actually livedfive months, longer than the six months.
The doctor gave him as an upsidelimit. Last August when they interviewed
(03:14):
him on Primetime, he didn't thinkhe was going to make it to Father's
Day, but he actually did.He went ahead with a lecture on September
eighteenth, two thousand and seven.He said he intended to have fun and
advise others to do the same.Spoke of the importance of childlike wander.
He did not omit things that wouldbreak just about anybody's heart. He spoke
of his love for his wife Jay, and had a birthday cake for a
(03:36):
will done stage. He spoke ofthree young children, saying he'd made his
decision to speak mostly to leave thema video memory, to put himself in
a metaphorical bottle that they might somedaydiscover on a beach. His a lecture
spread across the web and was translatedin many languages. He became the co
author of the best selling book andin a deeply personal friend wise understanding and
humors to many he had never met. Our sped up, wrote Jeffreys oslow
(04:01):
Wall Street general conlumists who covered thelecture, and the chance would be a
good story and help to bring itto wider awareness. It's been a translate
into several different languages. By theway. He wrote the book with doctor
Polsch, and the last lecture,published this year, came number one bestseller.
Last week, it was still numberone on the New York Times list
of advice books. Some of themany people who saw him on YouTube and
(04:25):
elsewhere wrote letters and email to thejournal and many blogs. Some said he
inspired them to quit feeling sorry forthemselves, or to move on from divorces,
or to pay more attention to theirfamilies. A woman said the video
gave her strength to escape an abusiverelationship. Others said they decided not to
commit suicide because of it. EvenI've seen all of this stuff. And
(04:45):
if you haven't seen it, boy, I tell you you got to go
out to go out there and checkit out on YouTube. And let's see
here, oh Jack the Wabbit.Okay, in fact, did we meet
Jack Jack? Jack was here,right, I don't know, I'm reading
(05:05):
I'm reading the room here. Uh, let's see, because he wasn't he
in fort Worth? Yeah? Livedin Fort Worth? Remember he was the
guy in the wheelchair. Yes,when we did the swap between us on
computers when they came down for theirfor their geek fest. Yeah. Oh
man, I am so sorry tohear that, because, yeah, we
(05:27):
had him. We had to setup a section for him and everything got
into a microphone and he came herealong with the gang and hung out with
us, and then we went overto the hotel and hung out with them
for three hours on Sunday to dotheir broadcast. I missed the Sunday part.
That's right. You were out oftown or something. I had to
go out of town. Yeah,well, the rest of us went that.
(05:47):
I do remember the Saturday though.Yeah. But uh, you know,
one of the things I've been thinkingabout all this thing with with Randy
and all going on and those acouple of things I've kind of seen,
you know, from the election Stuff'skind of helped me contemplate some things as
well, with everything that I've beenthrough lately and coming and thinking, and
it's kind of like, you know, you don't want to do all of
(06:10):
the subterranean wooboo. You know,there's a book I think came out a
few years ago called Don't Sweat theSmall Stuff. And the more and more
I go through days, the moreand more I realize you know what,
eh, I don't want to sweatthe small stuff. His life is too
short to be sweating this and that. And that was kind of also what
he pointed out in his as well. And of course there's a lot of
(06:30):
people out there, even like Mitchalbums, books, you know, Tuesday
with Maury and God, hard tobelieve that's been ten years. Tuesday with
Maury, who came out in nineteenninety seven, hard to believe. I
remember when he made the movie.I think that wasn't with Jack Lemon.
Yeah, but it's it, youknow. And then he died what two
thousand and one, so you know, went too far behind. But you
(06:54):
know, what's said is that wedon't have more guys like Randy. I
wish there was a lot of peoplethat were out there that had his enthusiasm
and stuff for things like this.You run into some people in life.
I've run into some of them evenwhere or I'm working now. But this
guy was one of a kind,and sadly we're all going to be not
(07:17):
too good without having him around.And the other thing I also heard too
was that they are building the GatesComputer Center on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
They've built a hospital section and thebuildings are kind of a part and they
have commissioned a foot bridge which willnow link the two buildings, which will
(07:40):
now be known as the Randy PolishMemorial Bridge. And so at least he's
going to have something there that'll havehis name on it and that they'll be
remembered for years to come. Haveyou seen the last lecture? Have you
seen the bits and pieces? Dude? You got to go up on YouTube
if you have not seen this.This thing is good. But it will
shake you to your core. Andwhether you have a family, or you're
(08:05):
single, or maybe you're just kindof in that position in life that we
all get to when we're young,kind of like we're you know, trying
to figure out where the compass isgoing. There's some of us later in
our age in life for a littlebit older where you end up getting your
compass blown out of the water alongwith your ship and you're still trying to
you know, drift of the rock, you know, those pieces of boat
(08:26):
going. Now what do I do? Definitely watch it and you'll get an
idea, so you'll do that.All right, Well, we're gonna take
well, I can take a bringwith good heck out of here. So
we'll see and you see next weekwe're done. Bye bye, so in
the words the grade of mortal orsome walls by the way, Bob will
(08:46):
be back next week. Hopefully werain as always obedeating yours. Good night,
Gold figure. That's right. Won'tyou take me to teh google down since
I joke between me and anyway?Oh well, I guess it's round table
time. Hang on, Camelot,Camelot, Camelot. It's only a model
(00:36):
the seas of a table. Onesecond loss. Let's not go to Camelot.
It is a silly place. Well, I tell you, it's been
(01:00):
a weird week here. It's beena weird night, weird night even.
Yeah, but you know, acouple months ago, I was intrigued by
watching the CBS Evening News and therewas a gentleman that they had interviewed and
he had decided that he had abig deal happened to him where he was
(01:22):
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and worked forCarnegie Mellon University. And you know,
most people when they retire and theyleave, they always have the last lecture,
a lecture that they send off,you know, from their fellow colleagues,
and then they leave and go offand to retirement or whatever. And
(01:44):
this particular person decided that that wassomething he wanted to do. But basically
he wanted to set it up assomething that he could leave for his wife
and children after his death, andof course it was titled The Last Lecture.
A whole bunch of people came toCarnegie Mellon to see him do his
lecture, and there were some people, for some reason whatever, they couldn't
(02:07):
make it. So they decided,no problem, We're going to put it
up on the website. We gota videotaped. You can come in anytime
you want and be able to watchit. Wow, that was just for
twenty people. It turns out thata lot of other people saw it too.
In fact, it ended up onYouTube and over ten million people have
(02:30):
viewed it around the world. Nowyou probably know what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about Randy Posh Pausch.He was forty seven years old, and
of course you probably even saw thedeal on Prime Time, which went a
little more into about it, andof course got so good that one of
(02:51):
the people from Carnegie Mellon was awriter collaborated with him and actually has a
book called The Last Lecture. Sadly, he died Friday at his home in
Chesapeake, Virginia, finally succumbing tothe cancer he had actually was told he'd
have five months. I actually livedfive months, longer than the six months.
The doctor gave him as an upsidelimit. Last August when they interviewed
(03:14):
him on Primetime, he didn't thinkhe was going to make it to Father's
Day, but he actually did.He went ahead with a lecture on September
eighteenth, two thousand and seven.He said he intended to have fun and
advise others to do the same.Spoke of the importance of childlike wander.
He did not omit things that wouldbreak just about anybody's heart. He spoke
of his love for his wife Jay, and had a birthday cake for a
(03:36):
will done stage. He spoke ofthree young children, saying he'd made his
decision to speak mostly to leave thema video memory, to put himself in
a metaphorical bottle that they might somedaydiscover on a beach. His a lecture
spread across the web and was translatedin many languages. He became the co
author of the best selling book andin a deeply personal friend wise understanding and
humors to many he had never met. Our sped up, wrote Jeffreys oslow
(04:01):
Wall Street general conlumists who covered thelecture, and the chance would be a
good story and help to bring itto wider awareness. It's been a translate
into several different languages. By theway. He wrote the book with doctor
Polsch, and the last lecture,published this year, came number one bestseller.
Last week, it was still numberone on the New York Times list
of advice books. Some of themany people who saw him on YouTube and
(04:25):
elsewhere wrote letters and email to thejournal and many blogs. Some said he
inspired them to quit feeling sorry forthemselves, or to move on from divorces,
or to pay more attention to theirfamilies. A woman said the video
gave her strength to escape an abusiverelationship. Others said they decided not to
commit suicide because of it. EvenI've seen all of this stuff. And
(04:45):
if you haven't seen it, boy, I tell you you got to go
out to go out there and checkit out on YouTube. And let's see
here, oh Jack the Wabbit.Okay, in fact, did we meet
Jack Jack? Jack was here,right, I don't know, I'm reading
(05:05):
I'm reading the room here. Uh, let's see, because he wasn't he
in fort Worth? Yeah? Livedin Fort Worth? Remember he was the
guy in the wheelchair. Yes,when we did the swap between us on
computers when they came down for theirfor their geek fest. Yeah. Oh
man, I am so sorry tohear that, because, yeah, we
(05:27):
had him. We had to setup a section for him and everything got
into a microphone and he came herealong with the gang and hung out with
us, and then we went overto the hotel and hung out with them
for three hours on Sunday to dotheir broadcast. I missed the Sunday part.
That's right. You were out oftown or something. I had to
go out of town. Yeah,well, the rest of us went that.
(05:47):
I do remember the Saturday though.Yeah. But uh, you know,
one of the things I've been thinkingabout all this thing with with Randy
and all going on and those acouple of things I've kind of seen,
you know, from the election Stuff'skind of helped me contemplate some things as
well, with everything that I've beenthrough lately and coming and thinking, and
it's kind of like, you know, you don't want to do all of
(06:10):
the subterranean wooboo. You know,there's a book I think came out a
few years ago called Don't Sweat theSmall Stuff. And the more and more
I go through days, the moreand more I realize you know what,
eh, I don't want to sweatthe small stuff. His life is too
short to be sweating this and that. And that was kind of also what
he pointed out in his as well. And of course there's a lot of
(06:30):
people out there, even like Mitchalbums, books, you know, Tuesday
with Maury and God, hard tobelieve that's been ten years. Tuesday with
Maury, who came out in nineteenninety seven, hard to believe. I
remember when he made the movie.I think that wasn't with Jack Lemon.
Yeah, but it's it, youknow. And then he died what two
thousand and one, so you know, went too far behind. But you
(06:54):
know, what's said is that wedon't have more guys like Randy. I
wish there was a lot of peoplethat were out there that had his enthusiasm
and stuff for things like this.You run into some people in life.
I've run into some of them evenwhere or I'm working now. But this
guy was one of a kind,and sadly we're all going to be not
(07:17):
too good without having him around.And the other thing I also heard too
was that they are building the GatesComputer Center on the Carnegie Mellon campus.
They've built a hospital section and thebuildings are kind of a part and they
have commissioned a foot bridge which willnow link the two buildings, which will
(07:40):
now be known as the Randy PolishMemorial Bridge. And so at least he's
going to have something there that'll havehis name on it and that they'll be
remembered for years to come. Haveyou seen the last lecture? Have you
seen the bits and pieces? Dude? You got to go up on YouTube
if you have not seen this.This thing is good. But it will
shake you to your core. Andwhether you have a family, or you're
(08:05):
single, or maybe you're just kindof in that position in life that we
all get to when we're young,kind of like we're you know, trying
to figure out where the compass isgoing. There's some of us later in
our age in life for a littlebit older where you end up getting your
compass blown out of the water alongwith your ship and you're still trying to
you know, drift of the rock, you know, those pieces of boat
(08:26):
going. Now what do I do? Definitely watch it and you'll get an
idea, so you'll do that.All right, Well, we're gonna take
well, I can take a bringwith good heck out of here. So
we'll see and you see next weekwe're done. Bye bye, so in
the words the grade of mortal orsome walls by the way, Bob will
(08:46):
be back next week. Hopefully werain as always obedeating yours. Good night,
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