WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.900 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.900 --> 00:00:02.400 align:middle line:90% Thank you very much, Caleb. 00:00:02.400 --> 00:00:03.570 align:middle line:90% That was great. 00:00:03.570 --> 00:00:07.710 align:middle line:84% I've never been introduced to that effect before 00:00:07.710 --> 00:00:09.540 align:middle line:90% in a great way. 00:00:09.540 --> 00:00:12.510 align:middle line:84% You've made it so that probably the next time I 00:00:12.510 --> 00:00:14.500 align:middle line:84% have to listen to an introduction, 00:00:14.500 --> 00:00:16.140 align:middle line:90% I'll be like, oh, man. 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:18.150 align:middle line:84% There's no hype man references in here. 00:00:18.150 --> 00:00:20.700 align:middle line:84% Why isn't this person talking about Flavor Flav? 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:24.750 align:middle line:84% And now it's got me thinking about biological hype people 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:25.980 align:middle line:90% or hype creatures. 00:00:25.980 --> 00:00:29.250 align:middle line:84% I'm sure there are some kind of zoological practices 00:00:29.250 --> 00:00:33.930 align:middle line:84% that seem like weird little finch that 00:00:33.930 --> 00:00:38.160 align:middle line:84% eats bugs off a rhinoceros back, like a hype man. 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:39.640 align:middle line:90% Are those sort of like-- 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:43.230 align:middle line:84% or are there like kind of weird dawn chorus things, 00:00:43.230 --> 00:00:46.642 align:middle line:84% where like a bird will sort of pay like a-- 00:00:46.642 --> 00:00:48.600 align:middle line:84% well, sort of like riff on another birds thing, 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:50.550 align:middle line:84% but also kind of like back it up a little bit. 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:51.630 align:middle line:90% So it's got like a-- 00:00:51.630 --> 00:00:53.370 align:middle line:84% I'm going to go home and I'm going 00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:54.773 align:middle line:90% to see if I can find anything. 00:00:54.773 --> 00:00:56.940 align:middle line:84% And I'm not going to credit you if I write an essay. 00:00:56.940 --> 00:00:58.550 align:middle line:90% But no, I'm just kidding. 00:00:58.550 --> 00:01:01.380 align:middle line:84% But, yeah, there's got to be some kind of slingshotting 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:02.850 align:middle line:90% that happens there. 00:01:02.850 --> 00:01:05.910 align:middle line:84% Nature has its own Flavor Flav other than Flav himself, 00:01:05.910 --> 00:01:09.450 align:middle line:84% who is supernatural, I would say. 00:01:09.450 --> 00:01:10.990 align:middle line:90% Anyway, thank you so much. 00:01:10.990 --> 00:01:13.740 align:middle line:84% And what a pleasure to be here today 00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:16.110 align:middle line:84% at this incredible building, this incredible center 00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:20.640 align:middle line:84% with its history, and among such great writers and instructors. 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.490 align:middle line:84% I also am so very honored to be reading 00:01:23.490 --> 00:01:27.307 align:middle line:84% with Mr. David Shields, who I've been reading the entire time. 00:01:27.307 --> 00:01:28.890 align:middle line:84% I've been thinking about what it would 00:01:28.890 --> 00:01:31.230 align:middle line:90% be like to be an essayist. 00:01:31.230 --> 00:01:34.740 align:middle line:84% And so if you would have told me like five years ago 00:01:34.740 --> 00:01:36.210 align:middle line:84% that we would be reading together, 00:01:36.210 --> 00:01:37.560 align:middle line:90% I would've been like-- 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.060 align:middle line:84% Actually, when Ander told me that we 00:01:39.060 --> 00:01:41.352 align:middle line:84% were going to be reading together, I was kind of like-- 00:01:41.352 --> 00:01:42.585 align:middle line:90% and that was like months ago. 00:01:42.585 --> 00:01:44.460 align:middle line:84% Also, though, Ander was telling me something, 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:45.968 align:middle line:90% I was kind of like-- 00:01:45.968 --> 00:01:47.760 align:middle line:84% Basically, I just make raspberries all day. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:50.790 align:middle line:90% That's my professional-- anyway. 00:01:50.790 --> 00:01:55.530 align:middle line:84% So a long story short too late, what a thrill to be here. 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:58.020 align:middle line:84% And I'm really looking forward to speaking to the students 00:01:58.020 --> 00:02:01.850 align:middle line:90% tomorrow in a couple of events.