What? I can't hear you guys.

What? I can't hear you guys.

But I tell you, when you finish that song, people will be like, Damn, I know where you niggaz are coming from.

Some of the earliest known epics, such as The Iliad and Gilgamesh , feature protagonists intense sadness after the loss of close comrades.

Victor, seated among us, asks me for a pencil and paper. I reach for my notebook, whose cover I still have.

So, my message to you folks, from my three minutes, is that I appreciate the chance to share this with you. I will be back. I love being at TED.

Naturally, they declare friendship with Fidel Castro and seek his embrace to prevent old comrades from accusing them of betraying their legacy.

So I told them this story. I said, Guys, I'm thinking about something here, this isn't right. I can't have a relationship with you guys based on a premise that is a quantifiable one.

With a big group, we headed to Izmir, a town in Turkey that is on the Aegean Sea. From there we would board a boat, face new dangers and challenges, and hopefully start a new life.

But once you see it, like you guys in the front row, all right, yeah, OK. So anyway here it is. And this is I think a perfect example of what Robert Wright was talking about in those non zero sum things.