Ralph Leighton

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164 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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Freakonomics Radio · The Vanishing Mr. Feynman (Update) · 29 May 2026 podcast

There's just times that I wish Feynman was here.

Many, many times.

I'm sorry, but this happens when I think of him, and I can't predict when it's going to happen.

So give me a moment, because I'm not good at controlling the upwelling.

It does happen, and I miss the man.

We would drum often at his place, but sometimes at my place.

And then after that, you know, then he'd just talk.

And then sometimes we'd drum again, and then he'd talk.

If he would ever say, oh, did I ever tell you about the time I blah, blah, blah?

I would always say, oh, no, I never heard it because I wanted to hear the story again.

So many crazy things really did happen to him that I think he prepared the ground for.

See, most people wouldn't go to the lengths that Feynman did to make a story happen.

He was aware that he would tell a story later about a certain experience that he was going through.

It's a friendship like, you know, unique, unique.

And what luck upon luck upon luck.

I do feel strongly that I want to keep his memory or memory of him.

So this is part of it and why I'm happy to spend as much time with you as you're willing to put up with me.

I would say a hippie sympathizer for sure.

We'd take walks and he'd purposely walk barefoot because he wanted to keep his feet street worthy.

He liked informality.

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