Seamus Blackley

It's a Dodge Tradesman van, and it's the extended version.

It gets horrifying gas mileage.

It's super loud.

It puts out clouds and clouds of hellish hydrocarbons when it runs, and it's incredibly long and uncomfortable to drive.

So think of like a 70s plumber who painted his truck this horrible two-tone beige.

And that's what Dick Feynman decided to buy when he got his Nobel Prize.

If you don't know what they are, it looks like a homeless guy has drawn on the side of this van.

Most people don't give it a second look, but if you're driving somewhere and a physicist sees it, they freak out and run at you and like you almost kill them and stuff.

Seamus Blackley.

I don't think Feynman was trying to teach...

students who were not gonna understand what he was saying.

He wasn't trying to reach out in an inclusive way and elevate everyone, okay?

Caltech is very hard on their undergraduates, right?

There's like a Lord of the Flies thing going on.

In the 60s, it was even worse.

It's a cultural thing that Caltech struggles with to this day.

And those lectures are built for those people who are going to go somewhere.

And those were the people that Feynman was interested in.

I don't mean to make him out to be such a prick, but I think that he was really interested in the really bright students who asked really bright questions when I'm thinking about stuff.

Now, that said, he obviously spent a huge amount of time in his career communicating ideas in a very clear way to general audiences.