“Now they’re going to say all these stories are horrible. Well, these stories, you know, you heard my story about the shark on the boat? It killed me. They thought I was rambling. I’m not rambling.
“It doesn’t float the boat. The batteries are too heavy. So I started talking about asking questions. My uncle was a brilliant professor at MIT for many years, probably the longest tenured in history. He was very smart, had three different degrees. So I have an aptitude for things. There’s such a thing as aptitude.
“I said, ‘So what happens if this ship is heavy and starts to sink and you’re on it? Would you get electrocuted or not?’ I mean, if the ship was sinking and you were on it, would the current go through the water and sweep you down?”
“And let’s say there’s a shark about 10 yards out there. Do we have to abandon it right away, or can we go down in the power boat? And he said, ‘Captain, nobody’s ever asked that question before, but Captain, I don’t know.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I’d like to know, because I can guarantee you one thing: I don’t care what happens. I’m going to go down in the power boat. I’m not going to give up.’
“So I tell the story, and the fake news says, ‘He told this crazy story about electricity.’ It’s not crazy. It’s just a nifty story, you know? It’s like a snake, and it’s a nifty story because you think about what you’re going to leave out, you know? You bring it to the snake, you know? Snake and snake. And when I say that, they do the same thing.”
