People wonder a lot about my perception of things
that sighted people see all the time.
You know, big, giant things that I probably couldn't even get my head around.
The sun maybe. Like, the sun I under is what?
93 million miles away from earth. Right?
You know, first off, I can't image 93 million of anything.
And it's funny, like a cloud could come and block it.
You know, just in your backyard or wherever you are.
But how come nothing has ever come between it and the planet?
Wouldn't that be the easiest thing in the world?
I guess it's like a ball, right? It's like a big
what, like a yellow ball of fire, or
a red ball. I don't know. What color is the sun?
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So, like, sunrise or sunset,
I can sort of feel the sun start to hit me and start to be warm again
but, like that's it. And conversely
at the end of the day I can feel it go away.
People say it's so beautiful. You can see all these colors
and I don't even know what. See, there's
all these things that, like, I know about, but I just don't know what they are.
Like space.
A teacher once taught me that the universe, let's just say
like you take a big, like a wall.
Put a dot anywhere you like on that wall. And that's
what our galaxy is. So that's how giant
That's how I have an idea of the universe and its, its size
and its vastness and all that. And how small this whole
thing really is. All these nine planets. It's funny, right?
Something that I enjoy so much, I don't even know, like, what it is. What it looks like.
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The Grand Canyon. I mean, here's -- isn't it just a big hole?
Like a big long hole? Right, that's like a mile deep?
That's it, right?
But, people love looking in a hole.
I don't get it. Sight must be fun.
Like depth perception. You could look down
from the Empire State Building and go, Wow wee,
that's a long way down. Where for me,
you know, if we went up and down in the elevator, went on a circuitous route to
the top, I might not ever realized we were at the tippy top.
You know what I mean?
I don't know I'm afraid of heights, but I'm afraid of falling.
Right? Because I don't know how far I have
to fall. So, if I was going to jump off,
like a four foot wall, I'd rather lower myself down to jump
because I don't know where the ground is going to be.
I guess the sky to me is really just this big
wide open thing with nothing in your way at all.
You know, as long as your above all the trees and the buildings and stuff
there's nothing blocking you. You can just go and go and go.
It'd be fun.
I need a place like that here on earth. (laughs)
You know what I mean? Like the beach was always fun for that.
Because I could just run and run and run and run and
there was nothing in the way. And I could just, you know, know that I was safe to just
let it rip as a kid. And the horizon!
I mean, I guess I get it,
but -- so what it is? It's this thing...
that at the end of the day, you see the sun
I guess, go under. Right? Is that how it works?
So the sun lowers the sky. Lowers, lowers, lowers. Colors. Nice.
Everything good. You can see the horizon and the sun goes behind that
or below that. And then as the horizon
disappears it's gone, right? Because there's no light anymore?
Wouldn't the moon and stars be over the horizon too?
Fog must be cool! Fog must be -- Oh, man!
So you're driving down the highway, right, and then all of the sudden
your visibility goes - poof - gone.
Giant bank of fog, and you can see a hundred feet in front of you.
Wow. It just shuts it all down doesn't it.
People always say in the fog, you know, I bet you could drive better out here Tommy!
You could do just as well as us.
The Great Wall of China. No here's the thing they say
is visible from space. Why? I mean, I get because it's so long.
Long to me is an episode of "Friends". (laughs)