Eventually we moved on to beach ball for crying out loud then there was the galactic hail.
最終冰雹達到沙灘球那么大然后還有銀河冰雹
And I would try to catch my dad in inconsistencies He would tell me the story about in the mountain of North Carolina he.
我經常在父親的故事中發現不合理的地方有一次他跟我講北卡羅來納山區的故事
Would start a story about the steep hill almost a cliff yet to climb just to get to school.
故事一開始講陡峭的山峰他幾乎要爬上懸崖 才能到達學校
And then he tells me some story, and forget and before I knew, he was going home up another steep cliff and hill.
然后他講故事時卻忘了這點他說他回家需要爬上另外一個陡峭的懸崖
I don't know what kind of geographical anomaly he grew up in and I finally, I know again this is Dvar Torah.
真不知道他生長在怎樣的畸形地貌中最后我終于知道 這仍然是摩西五經宣講
So I can tell you I broke a Ten Commandment but there's one about honoring your mother and father.
可以說 我是打破了十誡有一條是尊重父母
My father started story telling me, son when the tsunami hit our town and I'm like, Dad.
我父親有個故事開頭說 兒子當海嘯襲擊我們鎮時 我說 爸爸
Dad, stop, I'm sorry There's no way you could have had a tsunami in the mountains of North Carolina.
爸爸 等等 對不起北卡羅來納怎么可能會有海嘯發生呢
And my dad crosses his arms against indignity, he doesn't retreat who cares if you got your facts wrong, he looks at and he says boy.
我父親把手抱在胸前 面對我的輕蔑 他毫不退縮似乎不在乎事實上的錯誤 他看著我 說
I'm telling you the tsunami hit. It was a long time ago before the internet You can't look it up but it happened.
我說有海嘯就是有 這是互聯網出現之前很久的事了你查不到 但確實發生過
And so 2 stories about vision Sort of the first one I want to tell you.
兩個關于異象的故事我想講的第一個
Is a part of my father and my grandfather's tradition and Stephen Colbert says it has a high level of truthiness.
部分是我父親和祖父的傳統斯蒂芬.科爾伯特說 它有更高層次的真實性
Well, it's not quite true and this story about vision is very simple. I was at a very young age.
這并不很對這個關于異象的故事很簡單 當時我很年輕
The youngest elected in my city at that time The youngest elected person I was on the city council in Newark, New Jersey.
是當時市里最年輕的民選官員我是新澤西紐瓦克市議會最年輕的議員
And I was also at the same time serving on the board of trustees at Stanford University.
而同時 我又是斯坦福大學董事會成員
And so I had this interesting experience of leaving the board of trustees essentially for a city and flying to California.
這就讓我有了這種奇妙經歷我需要經常從市議會飛赴加利福尼亞
To serve on the board of trustees of that university and I do it 5 times a year.
為大學董事會服務一年我要飛五次
And one day in a council meeting in a fight and I don't know what kind of cities you guys come from.
有一天市政會議上所有人打作一團我不知道你們來自怎樣的城市