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- Previously on Young Sheldon...
- Hello, Mrs. Cooper.
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I just wanted to let you know,
with Dr. Sturgis away,
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I'll be available should
Sheldon need anything.
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Now, I'm not terribly experienced
around children.
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If he needs to use the restroom,
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I don't have to go in with him, do I?
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I don't need you to babysit me.
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I'm perfectly self-reliant.
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Then it's good I kept the receipt
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for this bottle of bubbles
shaped like a bear.
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Welcome to the world of philosophy.
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I'm going to teach you
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that you don't even know
what you think you know.
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Oh, boy.
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I'm not going to school.
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- Why not?
- Because I don't know what's real.
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Nothing matters.
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George?!
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All right,
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what's the problem here?
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I don't know what's real.
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That's a fun thing to think
about on the way to school.
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Get up and get dressed.
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Maybe I'm already dressed.
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Maybe I'm wearing a zoot suit and spats.
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That's a shoe covering that's
short for "spatterdasher."
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Or is it?
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There's no way to know.
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Here's what I know: I don't
have time for this nonsense.
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What is time?
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What is sense? What is "is"?
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Sheldon, I mean it.
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I remember when things meant things.
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All right, I'm gonna
count to three. One...
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Believing in numbers...
that takes me back.
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- Two...
- To be or not to be.
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Shakespeare was onto something.
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It's your last chance.
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Have you ever wondered
if you're the tongue
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of a multidimensional being
trying to taste something
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you can never even understand?
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I have.
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I talked to him.
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Where is your mother?
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She had to leave for work.
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I have to work, too.
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You also get to take me to school.
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What am I supposed to
do about your brother?
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Call me old-fashioned,
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but I say spank him.
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Your mom won't let me.
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Okay, I'm here.
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What's up?
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Sheldon won't get out of bed,
and I'm gonna be late for work.
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He's gonna be late for school.
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So you want me to get
him up and drive him?
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- Yeah.
- I like it better
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when I just come eat
your food and leave.
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Hey, Moon Pie.
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What's going on here?
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That's an excellent question.
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Too bad there's no answer.
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Well, you need to get out of bed.
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I don't need to do anything.
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Okay, I'm gonna count to three.
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Dad already counted to three.
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Oh.
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Did he try the Texas thing?
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- No.
- In that case,
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look at you, lyin' there.
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When a Texan gets knocked off a horse,
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he gets right back on.
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That is the second most important thing
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about bein' a Texan,
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right after thinkin' you're
better than everybody else.
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Maybe the horse gets back on the Texan.
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Who's to say?
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I don't know what that means.
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That's because you can't know anything.
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If you need to stare at the ceiling
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and contemplate the
futility of existence,
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Missy's bed is available.
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- Amazing.
- What is?
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I've been using this same
pen for seven months,
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and it's still going.
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That's your bar for amazing?
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Yeah.
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Sad.
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It's the same pen.
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It is too early in the morning for you.
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Hello.
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Yeah. I'll be down in a bit.
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Where ya headed?
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Principal's office.
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Ooh, you're in trouble...
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You're a child.
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I'd rather be a child than in trouble.
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Shelly, Dr. Sturgis is
on the line for you.
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Maybe he is, maybe he
isn't, but very well.
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- Hello?
- Hi, Sheldon.
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I hear you're going through
some sort of existential crisis.
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I suppose so.
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I just don't know if we can
tell what's real or not.
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And if nothing's real,
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I don't know what to think or
if I'm even thinking at all.
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I went through something similar once.
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Really? What happened?
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I was trekking through the Amazon,
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and I saw two frogs,
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one hallucinogenic
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and the other not.
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I tried to lick the normal one,
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and, by mistake,
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I licked the hallucinogenic one.
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It really rocked my world.
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Why would you lick either of them?
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I'm not sure. Probably low blood sugar.
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But the point is,
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I also lost track of reality.
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How did you handle it?
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I saw a jaguar,
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and I realized I didn't care
if it was real or not.
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I just hauled my tushy out of there.
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I appreciate the call.
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I'm giving you back to my meemaw now.
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Bye!
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Hey, John, any luck?
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Not unless you have access to a jaguar.
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I don't think I do.
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Really, any jungle cat will do.
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Hey, Tom.
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George.
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Sheldon's not here anymore.
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Thought it'd be a while
before I got called back
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into the principal's office.
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How's he doing? I miss that kid.
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He took a philosophy class
and won't get out of bed
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'cause he doesn't know
what's real anymore.
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Anyway, uh, we need
to talk about Georgie.
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Should've seen that coming.
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- What's wrong?
- Well,
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he's been cutting classes.
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Already? Semester's barely started.
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He's a go-getter.
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Mm.
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- I'll talk to him.
- Thanks.
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How's the team looking
this year, George?
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We just had one difficult
conversation, Tom.
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Let's not have another.
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Smart.
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While my meemaw wasn't
able to acquire a jungle cat,
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the idea of tormenting a child
did tickle her Texan fancy.
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Sheldon.
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I have someone else
who wants to talk to you.
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What are you doing
with that filthy thing?
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Why do you care?
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If nothing is real,
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then neither is the chicken.
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Oh. Good.
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We're standing now. That's progress.
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Get her out of here.
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Well, I would, but... apparently,
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I can't know what "here" is.
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So maybe I could just...
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set her on your bed.
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Okay! Okay.
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I'll get dressed.
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Make it snappy.
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This still doesn't solve
my existential crisis.
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Say what? You want to hold her?
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No.
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Less talk.
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More pants.
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What's your first class?
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Solid-State Physics at 11:30.
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We'll make it just in time.
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- Although, does...
- And before you say
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"Does time even exist?" it does.
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So stop wasting mine.
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What's this philosophy teacher's name?
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Professor Ericson. Why?
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I might pop in and say hello.
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Be careful.
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She may make you question
your most deeply held values.
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I'm a stubborn old crank.
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I'll do just fine.
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I'm a stubborn young crank,
and it didn't help me.
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You wanted to see me?
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Sit down.
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Is this gonna take long?
I need to get to class.
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From what I hear, you
don't care about that.
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Now, sit.
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What the hell you doin'?
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I cut a class. Who cares?
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It was more than one, and I care.
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You start flunking out, you're
gonna get kicked off the team.
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Fine.
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Now you don't care about football?
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Not really.
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I don't know what's going on with you,
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but you better get your
head out of your ass.
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Football's a waste of time.
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I have a job I could be at.
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You made a commitment to the
team and you're gonna honor it.
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We done?
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Just get back to class.
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And I better see you at practice.
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Well, I don't know if I can find
it with my head up my ass.
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So,
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according to de Broglie,
lambda equals "h"
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divided by "m" times what?
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- Sheldon.
- Is it velocity?
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- Yes. Now...
- Or is it a velociraptor?
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I'm sorry?
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Perhaps lambda equals "h" divided
by "m" times a velociraptor.
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Or a velveteen rabbit.
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Ooh, or Velveeta.
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That's the cheese my
mom puts on broccoli
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when she's being fancy.
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Is this from your philosophy class
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or perhaps that Ren &
Stumpy I've heard about?
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Philosophy.
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Mr. Cooper, do you really believe
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that de Broglie's equation
contains Velveeta cheese?
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I don't know. Maybe he was
just trying to be fancy.
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Hello.
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Can I help you?
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Hi. I'm Connie Tucker.
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I'm Sheldon Cooper's grandmother.
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Oh. Nice to meet you.
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He is a remarkable young man.
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Yes, he is. He's also a very
impressionable young man.
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Kind of like a lump of
clay with a bow tie.
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All I did was teach him
about epistemology.
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Whatever it is you're teaching him,
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it has made him question everything.
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That's the goal.
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Lady, I had to threaten
him with a chicken
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so he'd put his pants on.
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I don't know what's
gotten into that kid.
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He's allowed to not
want to play football.
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Can you for once in your
life take my side, Wayne?
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Not my fault you're never right.
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So you think it's okay he just quits?
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He doesn't get that much playing time.
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Well, in my family, we don't quit.
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Oh, I don't know. You quit
my book club pretty quick.
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I'm talking about football!
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Why is it so important
to you that he play?
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Are you sure you're a coach?
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Team sports provides confidence,
leadership, discipline.
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So does holding down a job,
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which he seems to shine at.
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Let's just eat in silence.
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Fine.
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I still think you should have
read The Color Purple.
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We were bawling.
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Although tasty, a brick of
cheese is not a number.
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Why are we still talking about this?
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Maybe we're not talking at all.
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Okay, that's enough for today.
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Not your best lecture.
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It's fairly normal for first-time
philosophy students
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to have their worldviews shaken.
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Do they snap out of it?
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Well, you hope.
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Professor Ericson, I insist...
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Hello, Connie. What a pleasant surprise.
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Hey.
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I'm sorry you're about to see me
speak harshly to my colleague.
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- Have at it.
- Professor Ericson,
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I insist that you speak
to this young man
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and explain to him that reality is real,
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and it's possible to
know things as fact.
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The class is called
"Introduction to Philosophy."
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That's what I did.
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Well, un-introduce him.
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Yes, he's at this school 'cause
of his brilliant scientific mind,
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and he spent my last class
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talking about processed cheese.
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Sheldon, is that true?
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Nothing's true.
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You see what you've done? You broke him.
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Hey.
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How come you didn't want to
get out of bed this morning?
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If I can't know what's
real, what's the point?
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You have the right words.
289
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You're just saying them wrong.
290
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It's not, "What's the point?"
291
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It's, "What's the point?"
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I don't understand.
293
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Asking these questions is exciting.
294
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It's what gets me out of bed.
295
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That's interesting.
296
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Richard Feynman did say
the greatest joy in life
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is the pleasure of finding things out.
298
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Feynman... he's the physics guy, right?
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00:12:00,830 --> 00:12:03,446
Yes. And your perfume is beguiling.
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It's all making sense to me now.
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Thank you.
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I am happy to help.
303
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Dr. Linkletter, I'm dropping your class
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and switching my major to philosophy.
305
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Uh, what?
306
00:12:21,290 --> 00:12:22,450
It's funny.
307
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This morning, I couldn't get out of bed,
308
00:12:23,770 --> 00:12:26,531
and now I stand before a whole
new exciting field of study.
309
00:12:26,532 --> 00:12:30,329
Well, maybe instead of
making this big switch,
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you could study both.
311
00:12:31,660 --> 00:12:34,740
You could be physics-philosophy guy.
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You sound like a logical positivist.
313
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That's a branch of philosophy
that maintains
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the best way to philosophize
is through science.
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Well, there you go. Do that.
316
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It may be too early to specialize.
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I've only been a philosopher
for 15 minutes.
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Did you notice Dr. Linkletter
didn't look too thrilled
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about you leaving science?
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He never looks thrilled about anything.
321
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I think that's just his face.
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That's the face.
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Why the hell weren't you at practice?
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Can't talk right now. I'm working.
325
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Well, you're gonna talk about it.
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What do you want from me?
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I don't want to play football.
I want to work.
328
00:13:14,830 --> 00:13:17,960
You have your whole
life to hold down a job.
329
00:13:17,970 --> 00:13:19,690
Hey, I like my job.
330
00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:21,750
It's not my problem you hate yours.
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Do whatever you want.
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To figure out which school of philosophy
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suited me best, I decided
to sample each one.
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The same way I determined
my favorite flavor of oatmeal...
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plain.
336
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What are you doing?
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I'm practicing the
philosophy of cynicism...
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the ancient Greek view
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that the rules of society
should be ignored.
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If you're gonna break rules,
you can do better than that.
341
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How?
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- _
- Renaissance humanism
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is finding meaning in the
human form through art.
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Can I move?
345
00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:06,757
- No.
- But my butt itches.
346
00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:08,300
Scratch it on your own time.
347
00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,128
- _
- Nihilists believe
348
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that there's no point to anything,
349
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because it all ends in nothingness.
350
00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,110
Mind if I put on MTV?
351
00:14:18,130 --> 00:14:20,479
Doesn't matter.
We're all gonna die anyway.
352
00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,600
Deep thought, dingus.
353
00:14:22,610 --> 00:14:24,688
- _
- Traditionalism is the philosophy
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00:14:24,690 --> 00:14:27,439
that the best way of life
is a return to the past.
355
00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,195
What are you doing?
356
00:14:29,196 --> 00:14:32,907
Making my own butter,
like in olden times.
357
00:14:32,908 --> 00:14:34,159
That's stupid.
358
00:14:35,130 --> 00:14:37,090
My arms are still sore.
359
00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:39,399
- _
- Altruism is the belief
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that we should live only by
bringing happiness to others.
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These are for you.
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00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:45,379
Thanks.
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00:14:45,380 --> 00:14:46,671
What the hell?!
364
00:14:46,690 --> 00:14:48,359
- _
- Egoism is the belief
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00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,550
that we should live only by
bringing happiness to ourselves.
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00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:52,930
Mmm. These are pretty good.
367
00:14:53,740 --> 00:14:56,049
- _
- Transcendentalists were philosophers
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00:14:56,050 --> 00:14:58,100
who believed that our deepest connection
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is with nature.
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00:15:00,150 --> 00:15:02,354
Eh.
371
00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,695
I'm beautiful.
372
00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,742
And then Georgie accuses
me of hating my job.
373
00:15:15,743 --> 00:15:18,549
Is this where I thought I'd end up? No.
374
00:15:18,550 --> 00:15:20,412
Is this where you thought you'd end up?
375
00:15:20,413 --> 00:15:22,699
I thought I'd be working at
my father's funeral home
376
00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:24,330
sewing people's eyes shut.
377
00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:26,210
My life turned out great.
378
00:15:26,211 --> 00:15:27,879
Well, good for you.
379
00:15:29,047 --> 00:15:31,925
The worst part is,
I think Georgie's right.
380
00:15:33,260 --> 00:15:34,802
You're not happy at work?
381
00:15:34,803 --> 00:15:36,639
I can see if my dad's hiring.
382
00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,014
How are your sewing skills?
383
00:15:38,015 --> 00:15:40,860
It's not work.
384
00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,890
Honestly, I don't know
if I'm happy anywhere.
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00:15:47,770 --> 00:15:49,220
Ugh.
386
00:15:49,230 --> 00:15:50,919
When I asked y'all to hang for a drink,
387
00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,237
I didn't know you were
gonna be such a bummer.
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00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,810
Geez Louise.
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00:16:10,290 --> 00:16:12,079
- Dr. Linkletter?
- Sheldon.
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00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,530
Good to see you.
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Come on in.
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00:16:14,710 --> 00:16:17,329
I don't suppose you're here
to discuss physics, are you?
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As a matter of fact, I am.
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Excellent.
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00:16:19,750 --> 00:16:21,080
I'm here to drop your class.
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00:16:21,090 --> 00:16:22,591
I just need you to sign this.
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Have a seat.
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00:16:25,180 --> 00:16:28,899
Sheldon, I don't know if
you thought this through,
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00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:30,595
but you're here on a
physics scholarship,
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00:16:30,596 --> 00:16:33,880
and switching to philosophy
may not be well-received.
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00:16:33,890 --> 00:16:35,199
Ordinarily, I'd be concerned,
402
00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,940
but I'm currently embracing hedonism.
403
00:16:36,950 --> 00:16:39,299
Sheldon, I've been made
responsible for you,
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00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:41,100
and so far, it's not going very well.
405
00:16:41,110 --> 00:16:42,518
You were admitted to this university
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00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:43,909
for your scientific acumen.
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00:16:43,910 --> 00:16:47,240
And changing majors could
have serious repercussions.
408
00:16:47,250 --> 00:16:49,630
Son, please try to understand.
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00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:51,610
If you abandon physics for philosophy,
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00:16:51,620 --> 00:16:53,789
you're gonna be missing
out on the opportunity
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00:16:53,790 --> 00:16:54,958
to be part of something great.
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00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,360
Possibly...
413
00:16:56,370 --> 00:16:58,560
As Dr. Linkletter prattled on,
414
00:16:58,570 --> 00:17:00,129
I couldn't help but notice
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00:17:00,130 --> 00:17:02,630
the beauty of that ephemeral bubble.
416
00:17:02,640 --> 00:17:05,800
I wondered if perhaps
we're all just bubbles,
417
00:17:05,801 --> 00:17:08,678
being buffeted through life
on a stream of currents
418
00:17:08,679 --> 00:17:10,555
beyond our understanding.
419
00:17:10,556 --> 00:17:12,910
Look at it. The local
minimization achieves
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00:17:12,930 --> 00:17:16,140
a global maximization,
and it's nearly perfect.
421
00:17:16,150 --> 00:17:17,779
I wondered if this was the key
422
00:17:17,780 --> 00:17:20,273
to the smoothness of
matter in the universe.
423
00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,000
The cosmic web of stars and
galaxies could hold it together
424
00:17:24,020 --> 00:17:26,540
like the web of polymers in soap!
425
00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,532
This could be a whole
new area of research.
426
00:17:29,410 --> 00:17:32,080
Changing majors would be a huge mistake,
427
00:17:32,090 --> 00:17:36,010
but if this is what you
really want, here you go.
428
00:17:38,420 --> 00:17:40,459
- Sheldon?
- What?
429
00:17:40,460 --> 00:17:41,549
Here you go.
430
00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:43,045
Good luck with philosophy.
431
00:17:43,046 --> 00:17:45,757
Oh, I'm back on science
now. I have work to do.
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