I noticed your Lenin biography.

Yeah, I just finished Lenin's biography.

Napoleon, FDR, Truman.

Yeah, I've read hundreds of biographies.

Hmm.

And when you spend a few hundred pages with somebody reading their letters and hearing them talk about the world, you create an intimate relationship with them

where you really understand them and I feel like I have a relationship with so many people throughout history.

And I guess maybe oddly I feel the same with the 25th century where I personally care more about what the

25th century thinks of me than I do what people now.

Mm-hmm.

And that's really what motivates me is because when I look back I appreciate people

throughout history who have done things that I benefit that we all benefit from in society.

Society is pretty remarkable.

Do you have a favorite historical figure?

They're all different. I don't have a favorite. They're all unique and I'm grateful for all of them and what they contributed.

Is there any one person that you identify with the most?

Everyone just a little bit.

Okay.

Do you have any women faves?

Any female faves? They didn't get to accomplish much until recently.

Yeah, it the most people have a handful of attributes that you allow them to achieve remarkable things.

And sometimes they're universal, sometimes they're

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