John Preskill
speaker
321 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
John Preskill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the idea was we were all going to go together.
And I think probably we would have made a film or something if we had.
So it was when Ralph gave me the wake-up call and said, look, if we're ever going to do anything about Tuva...
We must do it soon because Feynman's not going to live much longer.
So I went to LA and my wife and I shot this long interview with Feynman about Tuva on a home video camera.
He could only manage about an hour at a time.
He got so tired.
When my wife Lottie and I were doing the video recording, one morning we turned up at Richard's house and he was still in bed.
Gwyneth, his wife, said, yeah, Richard's still in bed, but he knows you're here and he's going to get up and so on.
And I said, you know, there's a thing here that we're going to have to worry about, which is if Feynman really is dying, and it seemed pretty clear he was, the question is, should I ask him to talk about death and his impending death?
And we decided, well, maybe the best thing is just to ask him.
So I went upstairs and he was getting up and getting dressed.
And I said, look, there's something I need to ask.
He said, well, shoot.
You know, he always said, shoot.
I said, well, I wonder whether you think I should ask you what you think about the fact that you're dying.
And he said...
He said, look, I'll tell you what, I'll just get back into bed and let's just think about this and talk it out aloud.
And he started talking about the conversations that he had had with Arlene.
I hadn't heard about Arlene until this point.
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