and i read the encyclopedia and i remember the story of galileo, socrates and giordano. bruno, all these people thinking, --, i was born 500 years too late. i mean, how easy would it have been to stand up for truth and reason and logic if you live back then when everybody was benighted? i mean, they didn't even know to wash their hands before, did surgery back then. come on. it these this was low hanging fruit. this have been easy but i born into the age in which all truth been discovered. so i couldn't for what i wanted to. well, guess what? i still could, because little me grew up in an age in which all of a sudden you realize that truth is in peril, as it always has been. and i use a metaphor at the end. most people in this room are too young to understand, but maybe some of you played with mercury. i had an idea in our basement. that's not smart to do another thing. my dad, you, me. this is fun. if you hammer mercury, it scatters. but then it comes back together. and i think that's what happens to people who resist truth. they you can hammer down and they scatter, bu