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Roger Payne & Jonathan Gottschall - What Is Most Needed Now - Finale

March 31, 2022

Ben Folds (0:00)

Today, on Lightning Bugs. If I go to talk to, say, Congress about art spending, I'll always get comments from the Peanut Gallery like, why don't you go talk about something important? Why don't you go talk about something that puts food on the table?

And because of that attitude, I felt like I would like to spend a year pointing out that our ancestors wouldn't have gotten from the middle of the food chain to the top of the food chain without ideas, without creativity. But you two stuck out because after my conversations with both of you, I felt like there was…

Jonathan Gottschall (3:25)

Ben, could you do my biography first? I don't have to follow that act.

Ben Folds (3:29)

I know. Here's your opening act there, Jonathan.

And Jonathan says, he wrote this, Jonathan does neat stuff. I don't know. His mom wrote that.

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