Adam Brown

I just didn't understand a word I was saying all the way through.

And eventually we landed on the fact that the stars in the sky are just like the sun, only much further away.

And this was a fact that in his life up to that stage, he just never encountered.

And that was extremely gratifying because he...

He was blown away by that fact.

He was totally intellectually capable of understanding it.

He just never in his 50 years of existence up to that moment ever heard that fact.

And his mind was just totally racing.

This was reorienting his picture of his place in the universe.

The universe must be so big.

There's stars out there.

And he phoned his wife, who I think was somewhat less excited, and then took me to a gun store and brought me lunch.

He was a ranger.

He was a rancher.

He was seemingly a very successful rancher based on everything about him.

But he had some prized high quality bulls that were some rare kind of high quality bulls.

I can't exactly remember the details.

But yeah, he just never really contemplated what the night sky meant for him.

Yeah, a hitchhiker's going to the galaxy.

Oh yeah, that was, okay, so during the pandemic,