This guy is so cool. He's like world class, a pioneer, a revolutionary. And yet he's talking about all this stuff as if he was digging ditches... that he's real

This guy is so cool. He's like world class, a pioneer, a revolutionary. And yet he's talking about all this stuff as if he was digging ditches... that he's really into. He cares about it for its own sake. The way he describes that story-teller brain-trust at the start (trust, necessarily honest) I think also describes him.