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One dumpling left. Who wants it?
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Maybe you should offer it
to the pregnant lady.
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And that would be?
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Me, Sheldon, I'm obviously pregnant.
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Well, you never said it to my face,
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and the last time I assumed a woman
was pregnant, it did not go over well.
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Yeah, I'm still mad at you.
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You were drinking water instead of wine,
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what was I supposed to think?
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Sheldon's right. I would never ask
a woman if she was pregnant
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unless she tells me, or I see
a human being wiggling out of her.
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Well, Sheldon, I'm pregnant.
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Congratulations! How far along are you?
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About three months.
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Only three?
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Good gravy,
how many babies are in there?
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Okay, let's talk about something
that won't infuriate my pregnant wife.
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I read an interesting fact
about elephants.
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Try again.
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Oh, I've got something. I'm being
interviewed on public radio this Friday.
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Oh, cool. How come?
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The university's trying to get
more funding for the physics department,
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so they want me to go out
and talk it up.
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Really, you?
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Well, they picked the right person
for the job.
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Thank you.
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I think he bought it.
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(THEME SONG PLAYING)
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Hi, I'm Ira Flatow,
and this is Science Friday.
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Joining me today is my guest physicist
Doctor Leonard Hofstadter,
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to talk about all of the exciting
research they're doing at Caltech.
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Thank you for having me. Whoa.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
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I never get used to hearing
myself in headphones.
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Is that really how I sound?
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(CHUCKLES)
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It is, it is.
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(HEAVY VOICE) That is good to know.
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I told him his voice was annoying,
he didn't wanna listen.
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Hey!
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What, you're saying it's not?
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Just, hey.
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So it has been five years
since the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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What's the next big thing gonna be?
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(LIGHT CHUCKLE) Wow, that's hard to say,
there's so much going on.
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We've been collecting tons of data
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that could revolutionize
the way we understand the universe.
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Uh, for instance,
there's a particle called a squark,
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which could prove supersymmetry!
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That is interesting. Have you found it?
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- What, the squark?
- Yes.
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No, no.
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Wouldn't that be exciting?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
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But we're also looking for
the selectron,
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the gluino, and the neutralino.
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- And have you found that?
- No.
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But, uh, fun side note,
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I went to high school
with a girl named Theresa Gluino.
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But it didn't cost
two billion dollars to find her.
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She was smoking behind the gym.
(CHUCKLES)
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So, what have you found?
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Um, nothing actually.
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Should he be saying that?
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Probably not.
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Yeah, this is public radio.
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Doesn't he realize
dozens of people might hear him?
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But, I remain confident.
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We've got the best equipment,
and the best minds all working on it.
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Okay, sounds like he's back on track.
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Although, some days I'm like,
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"Ugh, we've spent so much money.
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Why haven't we found anything?
What are we doing?"
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Oh, boy.
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There's Leonard. I bet he's having
a rough day. (CHUCKLES)
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Let's just try to be supportive.
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Supportive?
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He publicly maligned
the love of my life, Lady Physics.
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Might not want to mention that
to Lady Fiancée.
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Hell, guys.
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- HOWARD: Hey.
- RAJESH: Hey. How's it goin'?
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PH .
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What? You got something to say?
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I think I just said it.
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P.F.F.
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PH .
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- I...
- Look, I, I was just speaking the truth.
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Yeah, we're scientists,
isn't that what we're supposed to do?
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Oh, what would you know about the truth?
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You thought Phantom Menace
was "not half bad."
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I told you that in confidence!
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Okay, calm down, everybody.
Just cool it.
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No, let 'em go. if we get lucky,
maybe one of them'll start crying.
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Can we just drop this
and have lunch like adults?
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- Sure.
- Very well.
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- Leonard?
- What?
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PH .
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- You ready for lunch?
- Oh, one second.
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Ooh, someone's got a lot of
fancy new lab equipment.
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I know. The university's been
throwing money at my study.
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With any luck, there'll be
a brain disease with my name on it.
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Fingers crossed.
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Which is ironic,
because if you had Fowler's Palsy,
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you wouldn't be able
to cross your fingers.
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I'm surprised Sheldon's not up here
playing with all your new toys.
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Actually, I haven't told him about it.
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We've been getting so much more funding
than physics,
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he's been a little sensitive.
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So you're just gonna
hide your success from him?
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(SIGHS) I know, am I terrible?
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No, I do that too!
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Howie thought
my company retreat was in Boise.
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It was in Tahiti.
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That's such a relief.
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I mean, part of me was worried
I was being unfair to Sheldon.
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Take that part of yourself
and hide it away.
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Just like I did with last year's
bonus check that I "didn't get."
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-(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
-(DOOR OPENS)
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- Ms. Davis, you wanted to see me?
- Yes, Doctor Hofstadter, come on in.
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Should I sit or stand?
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I'm not used to being called
into the Dean's office.
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Please sit.
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I have to say, I'm a little nervous.
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You should be.
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Look, I know I screwed up.
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But it was only one interview.
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How much damage could it have caused?
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Would you like for me
to read you the emails
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from donors asking
why are they giving us money
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if physics is a dead end?
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I didn't say it was a dead end.
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I just said that
I was worried it might be.
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So, if I just said I was worried
you might not have a job next week,
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how would you feel?
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Light-headed
and glad you asked me to sit down.
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Okay, just tell me what I can do.
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I'm gonna need you to make a statement
saying that you misspoke,
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and that you're confident
the physics community
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is close to a major breakthrough.
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You want me to lie?
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Look, Doctor Hofstadter,
I'm counting on you.
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I think that you are the
smartest physicist at this university.
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- Really?
- See? Lies. They're not that hard.
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- Hi.
- Hello.
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Oh.
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Looks like you've been busy.
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Oh, I have.
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(STUTTERS) Dark matter, reconciling
gravity and quantum mechanics,
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supersymmetry.
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I figured out
the biggest problems in physics today.
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Wow, you solved them all?
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No, I just-- I figured out
that they're the biggest problems.
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Is this about what Leonard said
on the radio?
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Uh, absolutely not.
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And I do not want to talk about Leonard.
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Can we please
just talk about anything else?
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We could talk about my day.
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Walked right into that one, didn't I?
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Well, since you sort of asked,
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I actually had a very good day.
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I got some new equipment for my lab.
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Well, congratulations.
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I got some new equipment, too.
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I got these markers.
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They smell like fruit,
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which I did not notice
when I bought them.
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(GASPS LIGHTLY)
Don't really care for it.
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(SIGHS)
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Here, drink this.
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It might help.
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- What if it doesn't?
- No, that's why I brought the bottle.
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No one would talk to me in the halls,
they just glared at me.
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It's like high school all over again.
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Oh, I would totally do high school
all over again.
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But that doesn't help you.
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I got called into
the administration office.
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Ooh, look at my bad boy
getting called to the principal.
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We don't technically have a principal,
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there's a standing committee
that oversees the budget.
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Ooh, look at my bad boy
answering questions nobody asked.
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Oh, come on, look, you said
a few dumb things on the radio.
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What is the worst that could happen?
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I may get fired.
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Okay, well, even if you did,
you could find another job.
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(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Yeah, who wouldn't
wanna hire the physicist
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who publicly said physics is dead.
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Well, I wouldn't put that
under special skills.
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Look, I can fix it. I just need to
write a retraction I don't believe in.
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Basically sell out to keep my job.
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Great, I'll leave you to it.
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Hmm.
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Hmm.
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Oy.'
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(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
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LEONARD: Sheldon, it's me.
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- What?
- Look, I know you're mad,
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but I have to write a statement
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that says the physics community
is close to a breakthrough.
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And since you actually believe that,
I could really use your help.
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- Sorry, I can't.
- Come on, don't be like that.
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I can't, because I think you were right.
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- What?
- Look, (SIGHS)
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not all science pans out.
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You know, we've been hoping
supersymmetry was true for decades,
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and finally we built
the Large Hadron Collider,
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which is supposed to prove it
by finding these new particles,
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but it hasn't.
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Maybe supersymmetry,
our last big idea, is simply wrong.
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That sounds awful.
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Now I get why everyone hates me.
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On the bright side,
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after working together for 15 years,
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you finally get to hear me say
you were right.
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Yeah, you did.
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How's it feel?
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Given I might be unemployed,
bittersweet.
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Read it back to me.
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Hang on.
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(SIGHS) "Yes, one might question
the 20 billion dollars
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"to build and run
the Large Hadron Collider,
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"but on the other hand..."
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Okay, um...
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Oh, oh! On the other hand,
contrary to predictions,
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the Collider didn't create
a small black hole
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that devoured the Earth
and life as we know it.
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So, (STUTTERS) money well spent.
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This is depressing.
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Do you have any alcohol around here?
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Oh, not surprisingly, when Penny
moved out, she took every last drop.
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Oh, but I do have several bottles
of Romulan Ale
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that I bought at Comic-Con.
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Isn't that just vodka
with blue dye in it?
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First physics, now Romulan Ale.
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What else would you like to defecate on?
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Hey, I thought you were
coming right back.
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I was, but we're both depressed
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and decided to drown our sorrows.
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In mouthwash?
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Man, that is so summer camp.
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It's Romulan Ale from Star Trek.
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It was briefly legalized
during the alliance
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between the Romulan Empire
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and the Federation at the time
of the Dominion War.
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Aw, now I'm depressed.
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The more I told him about my lab,
the pissier he got.
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You know what he said to me?
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He said, "I hope all your correlations
turn out to be specious."
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He said that to your face?
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What a dick.
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You know, you're a successful woman,
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you should be able to brag about
your accomplishments once in a while.
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And so should you.
251
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I mean, the guys are never shy
about bragging.
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Tell me about it.
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Howie texts me every time
his dog levels up in Warcraft.
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Has he ever called you to tell you
he found three peanuts in one shell?
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'Cause Sheldon has.
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We should be able to do that, too.
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I guess we can brag to each other.
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That's a great idea.
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Damn right it is. I came up with it.
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(CHUCKLES)
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That felt good! (CHUCKLES)
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You know, there's so much money
in pharmaceuticals,
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we don't even wash out our test tubes.
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We just throw 'em out and get new ones.
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I just got a brand-new,
state-of-the-art FMRI machine.
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- Those things are so expensive.
- I know.
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Sometimes I just lie down in there
and take a nap.
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It's like a million dollar bunk bed.
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At the office, I have two assistants.
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I don't even know their names.
I just call 'em Thing One and Thing Two.
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That's great. I don't have assistants.
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I guess that's one of the benefits
of being in the private sector.
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That and all the money I make.
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Yeah, you've got that.
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I've got my integrity,
hard to say which is better
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without making you feel bad.
277
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Okay, so you guys are upset
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because the Collider thing
disproved your theories?
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L-it's worse than that.
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It hasn't found anything in years,
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so we don't know if we're right,
we don't know if we're wrong,
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we don't know where to go next.
283
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All I know is it looks like
I tongue-kissed Avatar.
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Come on, you guys are physicists, okay?
285
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You're always gonna be physicists,
286
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and sure, sometimes the physics is hard.
287
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But isn't that what makes it boring?
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- RAJESH: Hey.
- We're here. (SIGHS)
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- HOWARD: What's going on?
- Okay. As far as I can see,
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science is dead
'cause Leonard killed it.
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And I don't know who the Romulans are,
292
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but those guys know how to party.
293
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So, what do you want us to do?
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I don't know. You're scientists,
cheer them up!
295
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Cheer them up?
Do you even know what a scientist is?
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No, we don't need to be cheered up.
297
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It just turns out that
physics is exactly like Lost.
298
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Started out great, and turns out
just a big ol' waste of time.
299
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Boo-hoo. You know what
you sound like? Babies.
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Two whiny babies.
301
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There's nothing worse than
being stuck with two whiny babies!
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Oh.
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Oh, my God. I'm gonna have two babies.
304
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No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Babies are great.
305
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You're lucky to have two babies.
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I mean look at me, uh, I'm all alone.
I'm never gonna have babies
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'cause you can't make a baby
watching Netflix with your dog.
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Thanks for coming.
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I may not make as much money as you,
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but at least I know that
I'm actually doing something
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that makes people's lives better.
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Hey, my work makes
people's lives better,
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especially if you have moderate
to severe eczema
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and don't mind a few loose teeth.
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You're right, we both do important work.
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I'm trying to map the structures
of the brain,
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and you're trying to convince people
that itchy hair is a real thing.
318
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It is a real thing!
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It happens to be a side effect
of our cholesterol drug.
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I'm just saying that my research
may actually change the world forever.
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I hope it does,
322
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'cause I'm gonna see that world
from a yacht so big
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you can land a helicopter on it.
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Physics is all we're cut out for.
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I mean, if we weren't physicists,
what would we be?
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I don't know, popular? (CHUCKLES)
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RAJESH: Mm-hmm.
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It's fine, I don't need to be
a theoretical physicist.
329
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There's lots of things
I could use this brain for.
330
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I could be an accountant for the mob.
331
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I could guess people's weight
at the fair.
332
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Okay, this is getting silly.
333
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Is it?
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One-eighty.
335
00:17:04,357 --> 00:17:06,280
Okay, that is enough!
336
00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:08,194
Your lives are not wasted,
337
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your careers are not at a dead end.
338
00:17:09,987 --> 00:17:11,614
You just hit a rough patch.
339
00:17:11,822 --> 00:17:14,746
Instead of feeling sorry for yourselves,
you need to get up and get inspired.
340
00:17:15,034 --> 00:17:16,627
- How?
- I don't know!
341
00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:18,417
You know, when I'm feeling down,
I go for a run.
342
00:17:18,538 --> 00:17:21,382
Which is exactly why I'm not
180 pounds, genius!
343
00:17:23,918 --> 00:17:25,044
I know where we need to go.
344
00:17:25,586 --> 00:17:28,260
Um, are we running there?
Because watching drunk Sheldon run
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would be the highlight of my life.
346
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(RAJESH CHUCKLES)
347
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We're going to see Richard Feynman.
348
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Penny, Richard Feynman
is an iconic physicist--
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I know who he is. Leonard dressed as him
for Halloween last year.
350
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I had no idea Richard Feynman was dead.
351
00:17:46,399 --> 00:17:47,821
Yeah, most people don't know
352
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he's actually buried
right here in Altadena.
353
00:17:51,362 --> 00:17:54,582
I'm sure they keep a lid on that
to avoid traffic jams.
354
00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:59,412
Well, (CHUCKLES) here he is. (SNIFFLES)
355
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Oh, wow, he's buried with his wife.
356
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:04,633
We get it, a lady loved you.
Quit bragging!
357
00:18:07,086 --> 00:18:08,554
Feynman was so cool.
358
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When I was a kid,
I'd put on some headphones
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and crank up one of his lectures
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and just jam out to knowledge.
361
00:18:18,556 --> 00:18:19,933
This guy knew how to live.
362
00:18:20,474 --> 00:18:22,568
Taught himself musical instruments,
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studied Portuguese
just to give a speech in Brazil.
364
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:29,655
The only part of me
that's been to Brazil is my bikini line.
365
00:18:31,152 --> 00:18:32,153
Okay.
366
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,123
He did so much,
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00:18:36,657 --> 00:18:39,285
and here we are stuck
and letting him down.
368
00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:42,710
You know, Feynman used to say
he didn't do physics
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for the glory or the awards,
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but just for the fun of it.
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00:18:48,544 --> 00:18:49,670
He's right.
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Physics is only dead
when we stop being excited about it.
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Even beyond the grave,
he's imparting wisdom.
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00:18:58,429 --> 00:19:00,557
Um, I'm the one who remembered it.
375
00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:05,068
Give me the bottle.
It might be a little corny,
376
00:19:05,144 --> 00:19:06,862
but I say we pour one out
377
00:19:06,937 --> 00:19:10,191
for all the science homies
who came before us.
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00:19:10,358 --> 00:19:11,655
- I love that.
- LEONARD: Do it.
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00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:15,913
(HOWARD AND RAJESH CHUCKLE)
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Here comes some more!
381
00:19:21,619 --> 00:19:23,041
(SHELDON RETCHING)
382
00:19:24,038 --> 00:19:25,210
Ah, we got to see him run.
383
00:19:33,464 --> 00:19:34,511
Hi. You wanted to see me?
384
00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:38,011
Yes, I wanted to talk to you about
the email you sent me last night.
385
00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,187
I sent you an email?
386
00:19:42,223 --> 00:19:43,566
You bet you did.
387
00:19:45,601 --> 00:19:49,731
"Hello, shalom and aloha
from the grave of Richard Feynman."
388
00:19:50,147 --> 00:19:52,115
Oh, it's coming back to me.
389
00:19:53,067 --> 00:19:55,195
"Please accept the following retraction,
390
00:19:55,569 --> 00:19:57,492
"I know I said physics is dead,
391
00:19:57,655 --> 00:19:59,328
"but it is the opposite of dead.
392
00:19:59,699 --> 00:20:02,828
"If anything, it is undead,
like a zombie.
393
00:20:04,578 --> 00:20:07,627
"Speaking of which, if Richard Feynman
came back as a zombie,
394
00:20:07,915 --> 00:20:09,667
"I would totally let him bite me."
395
00:20:12,378 --> 00:20:13,675
Any chance that's the end?
396
00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:16,799
"I got bit by a squirrel once.
397
00:20:18,509 --> 00:20:20,182
"I had to get rabies shots.
398
00:20:20,511 --> 00:20:24,357
"I cried so much,
my mother said, 'Don't be a baby.'
399
00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:27,143
"In conclusion, physics is great,
400
00:20:27,518 --> 00:20:29,361
"squirrels suck and someday,
401
00:20:29,562 --> 00:20:31,906
"I'm gonna put my mom
in a cheap nursing home.
402
00:20:34,024 --> 00:20:37,745
"Yours truly, XOXO,
Doctor Leonard Hofstadter."
403
00:20:38,446 --> 00:20:39,538
I can explain. I--.
404
00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,032
"P.S.
405
00:20:41,991 --> 00:20:43,538
"Can you come pick us up?
406
00:20:43,659 --> 00:20:45,582
"The Uber driver won't open the door
407
00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:48,540
"because Sheldon is covered
in blue vomit."
408
00:20:55,796 --> 00:20:58,424
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