Pt 3: The Life and Times of Stephen Hawking | The Optimistic Atheist
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As a result of the devastating effects of ALS, Stephen could not walk or talk, but he did write the best-selling book, A Brief History of Time in his attempt to explain space, time and the very existence of God.
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| 0:29.2 | You don't want to miss the entirety of today's show because we're going to get into the life and |
| 0:32.3 | times of Stephen Hawking. |
| 0:34.1 | If you've missed any earlier segments you want to stick around because I'm telling you what, this story |
| 0:38.4 | is powerful. We're kind of getting to the not so good part. So here he is age 37 he's already confined to a wheelchair and |
| 0:47.6 | he decides you want me to do I have an opportunity to go do a business trip and so he he goes on business trips he has a child during this time |
| 0:57.7 | but he's confined to a wheelchair but he's still traveling working communicating barely verbally his speech is very slurred but he has like interpreters and people that kind of translate what he's saying |
| 1:08.1 | He's still giving lectures age 43 though he says I'm gonna do another trip I do this all the time. |
| 1:13.4 | He goes there and he cannot stop choking and he has an infection caused from pneumonia. |
| 1:18.4 | Next thing you know they have to call the ambulance the paramedics. |
| 1:21.3 | These people pull him out of a theater and his wife Jane decided to |
| 1:26.2 | go ahead and keep him on life support and to fly him to one of the only facilities in the world. |
| 1:32.9 | There's a hospital in Cambridge called Aidan Brooks or Adden Brooks. |
| 1:36.8 | They fly him out there. |
| 1:38.0 | When he lands there, they point out to his wife, |
| 1:41.2 | where we're the only places in the world that can stop infection like this. |
| 1:44.0 | However, to save him, if you do want to save him, we need to cut a hole in his neck right now |
| 1:49.0 | and we need to insert a tube into his windpipe, otherwise my main man will die. The only way he |
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