Matt Fradd

The only reason that we can even do what people call creating meaning is that there are some meanings already there.

But we can't make something up from absolute scratch.

That's just crazy.

Oh, my God.

No, no.

But for the first 25 years of my life, I pronounced it wrong.

You pronounced your name wrong?

I pronounced it wrong.

My parents had Americanized the name.

And I learned the Polish pronunciation.

I reverted.

Well, I'm glad you asked that question because anything, no matter how crazy, if it's going to be plausible, if anybody is going to fall for it, there has to be some grain of truth in there.

Liars know that too.

You know, they think they always try to pack as much truth into the lie as possible because then that makes the rest of it more plausible.

And what you do is you take that little bit of truth and you twist it.

The same thing happens if somebody is making an innocent error.

There's something he's got his hands on.

This makes me feel differently than you.

I don't want to be controlled completely by my circumstances.

Gee, I don't know whether people will remember me after I'm dead, the guy says.