My dad thought "42" was one of the funniest punchlines ever. He really got it.

@yourmeister

2 жыл бұрын

It totally is. It's so blatant, it's hilarious.

@royfearn4345

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct. I have found that 42 crops up time after time. Crazy but true!

Douglas Adams was a pure gift to this world!

two of the greatest minds on Earth sharing a conversation over tea. A+ thank you.

That was indeed the main idea of my video, just to put these 2 geniuses who both think outside the box and see what happens. I proposed this to PBS as an idea for a series, but never got a reply so this was a unique on-camera encounter. I also made some films with Quentin Crisp, Dr. John Lilly, and Robert Anton Wilson...with the idea of making a series of "thought operas" which are not about one simple subject but wander off in unexpected directions.

Oh wow, such great minds together! I'd never seen Michio Kaku at such a young age.

@gfdia35

Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is at this point in time a lot of people kinda saw kaku as sort of a quack ,,, back then he'd say wild stuff in a manner that was fact without a good reminder to the lamen that it may or may not be a mainstream theory,,,,, one of the guys nerd quirks that hurt him in the beginning

@VJ1tv

Жыл бұрын

@@gfdia35 - At this point in time Dr. KAKU had a really great radio show with live call in called "All Things Considered" and he was very popular for connecting science and world policy. He won a very prestigious teaching post and was soon invited to speak as the perky science expert on many topics on TV. So I don't think I agree with your analysis.

I wish Douglas could see how small today's supercomputers are!!! And what they can do.

Wow this is awesome!! Thank you for posting this! Can't believe I've never seen this before!!

This is a gem. Thanks uploader!!!

Thank-you Elliot. I shot this interview in the old TV ratio and wanted to update it for the larger 16 x 9 widescreen format.

Thanks for uploading

That was great! Thanks Merrill!!

Adams was a genius ❤

the science of comedy...the magic of the mundane;;;these are tools to make life better. I enjoy hearing about the process analysed by such creative powerhouses.

Thanks for this upload. Love Adams and have not seen this.

time is an illusion. tea time doubly so

Your welcome. See link in the description if you are interested in the full film on DVD.

This is pure treasure.

When i expressed my shock and sadness the day he died everybody said „douglas who?“ but almost everybody had heared of 42 and dont panic.

Well, this is an interesting video which I find myself watching!

I have just completed editing the film and it is on DVD from the address posted in the description above.

Thanks for putting this up :-) Could you please put up the rest?

Oh my god! These guys met!!

Best crossover ever

Some years ago the Hubble-constant was calculated to be 42, I bet the astronomers fell out of their chairs when they got that result :-) Now it has been revised to 70-something.

for tea? two. 42.

@bradmodd7856

5 жыл бұрын

tea for 2? for tea 2.

@scottbaker4534

7 ай бұрын

Best, absolute, best conjecture I have heard about the origin of 42! I smacked my forehead when I saw it. I will never forget “tea or no tea” in the game for my Commodore 64. I truly felt connected to Douglas when playing that game. I felt like I was playing it with him. I wonder if he knows how many hearts he touched that way. I was just a young kid. If only I’ve known, he lived just 50 miles away. I would’ve begged him to adopt me!

@readmycomments100

7 ай бұрын

@@scottbaker4534 Ahhh....memories... Glad you enjoyed it mate 😉

Your wish is granted. The link for the DVD is in the description.

finally edited this and it is available at the address in the clip description. The first 42 will be numbered.

Of course, the British and the Japanese are both cultures that have a history of tea drinking.

Would be keen to see the entire interview. Will it be made available, please?

wish all youtube videos had borders like this

What a great lan he was.

Looking for Salmon of doubt audio book Found this gem

@VJ1tv

3 жыл бұрын

This is the tip of the iceberg! I am going to capture this full film and put it online for streaming sometime soon. I will add a link somewhere here in the thread.

@x3ICEx

3 жыл бұрын

@@VJ1tv I look forward to it. Subscribed 🙃

@Canalcoholic

3 жыл бұрын

Salmon of Doubt audiobook, read by Arthur Dent, is available on Audible and I highly recommend buying it! Late to the party, but during lockdown that introduced me to Richard Dawkins, and through him to Christopher Hitchens.

Any chance of the rest of it being made available? /wishes

Gone far too soon. 💚

Does anyone know where the complete interview is at all?

We lost him too soon. Too Zarking Soon!

It’s good that Michio Kaku didn’t really intrude in this interview, but I’ve always found it slightly disturbing that Douglas Adams sought to associate with people like him and David Deutsch, people on the fringes of science.

@VJ1tv

Жыл бұрын

Douglas did not "SEEK" this association, I did. It was my idea. And your idea that Michio is a fringe scientist is a fringe idea of your own. Also; this is only a small excerpt of the interview.

It is true that 42 is a very ordinary number - and so the many attempts to find some great significance in the number are fanciful, at best, especially when they don't have any basis in Adams's own writings. But it's unfortunate that, in all his interviews and comments about HHGG and esp. the number 42, he never once admits that he borrowed from Lewis Carroll, which is quite important to the question of the SOURCE of the number (When asked about Caroll in an interview [Heavy Metal, March 1984] he totally dodged the question thus: “when I was a little kid, and it frightened me to bits and I couldn't bear it since then.”). But his borrowing is transparently obvious : 1) at the beginning of the HHGG radio shows when he names the episodes "Fit the First", echoing Carroll's titles for the eight sections of his humorous narrative poem "The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits" [Carroll is playing on the Old English meaning of "fit(t)" for a division in a narrative poem] 2) in the Milliways slogan “If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?” which is lifted nearly verbatim from the White Queen's remarks to Alice in Through the Looking Glass (chapter 5). 3) in the significant use of "42" -- Carroll (a mathematician!) highlights "Rule 42" in the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark (interestingly as the source of the Bellman's problems) AND in Alice in Wonderland (chapter 12 - the King of Hearts appeals to when telling Alice to leave, based on its being "the oldest rule in the book".. which Alice notes appears conveniently made up, and oughtn't the "oldest rule" be Number ONE?!) There are several other uses by Carroll - including in Alice's times-tables gone wrong and even the Queen's age - as students and biographers of Carroll have noted There is no need to suggest anything elaborate or deeply meaningful in Adams's use of the number, but to ask us to deny his debt to Carroll... well that give us the first impossible thing to believe before breakfast.

@VJ1tv

Жыл бұрын

This is all news to me, and very interesting. I will say though from my trust of the man and knowing how muses work in my own head, his replies to the question seem to relate to why he personally found the number ruse comical. If he became engaged with the number from Lewis and Carroll, he may still have personal reasons why he was attracted to it, his own personal reasons why he finds it satisfying. For sure he created his own unique context. If further he says that Lewis and Carroll writings disturb him, that seems a reason why he would not want to switch the focus off his own inspirations and start talking about early influences, for better or for worse. That said, I love your new input to this and to me it seems fascinating that these two different generations of fantastic authors collided.

@raffriff42

5 ай бұрын

“Rule 42 …the oldest rule in the book.” (Thank you.)

OMG did Michio say Ford PERFECT? 🤣

A amazing and informative interview by people I love and respect, full of amazing information. Quite un-scientific for theoretical physicist (Who have to make the closet and HARDEST research,observations, analysis,changing of variables and educated hypothesis, with things unknown to anyone else, at the edge of the scientific understanding itself) to just say "Well I guess random even numbers run the Universe." Lmao

@arthurdent549

8 жыл бұрын

+Uriel Baca ...Sure but come on, they were at "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" having Tea. Anything can happen there. Trust me, I've been there and I know...

Michiu Kaku is younger than Mr. Satan.

Damn Kaku was young

@christopherTARDIS Yes. I have it.

To all : May 25th, TOWELDAY ! 😊😎👍🇳🇱

Oh Douglas ... Electrons don't move at 186000 miles a second. The field's waves propagate quickly whilst the electrons bob along reluctantly at a couple of meters an hour.

@arthurdent549

8 жыл бұрын

+Randomly Omnipotent ...Douglas was a humorist, Not a scientist...on the other hand You're Just a Jerk...Piss Off.

@mananaurora

8 жыл бұрын

+Arthur Dent Ok.

Very odd to see the poster for the movie, when Douglas had died several years before.

@VJ1tv

3 жыл бұрын

True. Doug co-wrote the screenplay, and the movie was dedicated to him posthumously. I made this film a few decades after shooting the interview. Media has a life of it's own!

Words? From me?..No need. Please absorb in enjoyment the vid and share and... you know the drill. Love. 🎩 🖖🧙‍♂️🐸👍🧙‍♀️

SO HE HAD DARK HAIR ONCE.

😆

I still think Douglas was a Jackie Robinson fan.

42 in binary is 101010. as an angel number it means love, end of dificult circumstances and start of abundance. There you have it. Finally decoded. Godda love the woo.

I felt that douglas was a bit hard on himself here. Earth on the scale of things was a tiny computer. Just sayin'....... I feel really depressed.

Time for the answer to the ultimately useless ultimate question. "Forty Two" ...!**!!!*! Don't Panic 😊 Do well for those to come, you.. uh .. tap tap.. I'm still here?!? Uh .. We have been dared to. You.. Are We up to it? The dare from all our individual ancecstors for at least the last sevenhundred million years.. °Boooooooooom Love. 🎩 🖖🧙‍♂️🐸👍🧙‍♀️

Who's Ford Perfect? ;-))))))))))))))))))

@Canalcoholic

2 жыл бұрын

That was an “OMG, did he really just say that?” moment, had he even bothered to read the book?

6:00 , he wanted it to be *not* a funny number, the joke was that it was a number at all, and so the number couldn't be funny in itself. Odd numbers are weird, it had to be even and not funny.

@saernst

3 жыл бұрын

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Why do we have to pay to see the full interview :( How can you make money off someone else's work?

@MMaRsu

8 ай бұрын

Nevermind, you are the director lmao. Still, don't deprive us of a full hour of Michio Kaku and Douglas Adams.. Not everyone has money to spare. Knowledge should be free.

@VJ1tv

8 ай бұрын

@@MMaRsu - I made a sacrifice to make this film with my own money and I never sold it. So if I ask for the equivalent of a cup of coffee for the fun to see that film unlimited times, you either respect that or not. I am just looking for a way to pay my internet bills.

When you have to explain the joke, it's not funny anymore.

@VJ1tv

Жыл бұрын

For those INTERESTED in comedy it goes beyond the laughs, it's fascinating.

Michio Kaku still preaching about the superbullshit theory....Douglas Adam's is gone....can we just swap these 2 men out? Bring Adam's back, God, you can have Kaku!

@VJ1tv

Жыл бұрын

"still"? This was filmed 34 years ago. Oh gee, you poor suffering superior thing you!