Good afternoon, Michael Malis here. Let that you're welcome for the next hour. We have with us one of our favorite guests are returning guest James Lindsay. He is co author of how to have impossible conversations and cynical theories with Helen Pluck Rose and you're one of the main guys in terms of fighting what's going on with critical race theory and all this other kind of ideology that's coming out of the end of the day.

critical race theory and all this other kind of ideology that's coming out of the universities one second my screen froze. Okay, James what I want to ask you about and of course being the co author of how to have impossible conversations makes you the perfect guest for this train wreck of a show.

I was really kind of impressed as my house is still a complete disaster and everyone's getting asked mad you were telling me about the story of the backdrop that you have which I thought was pretty interesting can you share that with the guests.

So I got a world map behind me. So the deal was that there's a few things to speak and people getting asked mad. I just had a wall like I don't care what's behind me and I don't know why other people care what's behind me and people wanted like a TV screen with like fake cityscapes and like people were trying to get me to green screen but then you're like part of your face disappears every time you turn your head.

It's like what so I've wanted a map upon which I could document all of the absurd number of flights that I take just this kind of like a you know a little conversation starter or curio and just I don't know I don't get nostalgic or whatever but I thought it'd be cool and I've been thinking about it for a while and finally I just was like you know what the solution to this problem is to buy the largest world map I can find and stick it on the wall behind me.

And then get a marker and draw my flights on it which is what I've done so it's kind of probably hard to see and there's a little bit of glare from the lamp but because I turns out I didn't intend to get a shiny one but it saved my ass because couple of my lines were wrong and I could erase them.

So this is something I wanted to ask you people used to get upset at me because I had my headphones tangled when I have the mind with this is an old pair of headphones and my they thought I was trying to troll them intentionally when it wasn't that at all it was that I didn't understand the utility of spending the time to untangle the headphones when they get tangled again but I'm only using them for this so that was something I'd understand but I do want to ask you and I apologize in advance if I'm spoiling a troll that map is cricket it doesn't know actually you're not it's not a troll.

It's even worse than that the thing that my computer is sitting on his crooked and I can't be asked to fix it I actually went with a level the map is level so the the rest of the universe is crooked as a result of me not leveling no ship my computer is sitting here's the glamour of being a world class culture warrior my my laptop is sitting on a fucking shoebox and it's not perfectly level.

And it's honestly it probably is in the floor underneath the desk is probably actually what's not level but the map however at least across its top line I actually leveled the problem with the map and you can't see it because I was very careful about how I range it is actually that it's about six inches too high so there's a stupid gap of white wall under it and you can't see part of it when I when I am line it up for most of my interviews.

And I can't be fucking bothered to fix it because it's we put this plaster on the wall and it's so fucking hard to drive a pin through it that it's like I bent almost all the time I like I don't have to get nails to put up a map and this is this and then here even better.

This is how I drew the lines you know this is this is a piece of leftover quarter round that's supposed to go up like in the corner that never got put up there.

I just love the idea that this is somehow you're homage to geocentrism no it's the map that's correct everything else is wrong.

Well it turns out that the room really is what's wrong and so is the laptop and so is this shoebox it's I've used it so long it's smashed and it is yeah and you have no capacity to acquire an issue box.

No, I have no so this is this is exactly the same story as your headphones.

Okay, I have the capacity I do not have the motivation because I don't see the point I don't give nearly as much of a shit about my appearance on a video as one might believe.

Okay, so let's segue to something about current events who would you say is a bigger shit lord you were the president.

Well, I mean the president just swooped in and took it out from behind didn't he.

What has been your reaction to hearing about the possible rumors people don't understand don't I was surprised there was a Republican operative I forget the woman's name and she had tweeted out that rumors are going around the Vatican that vice president excuse me president Biden had an accident his pants and had to change clothes when he was meeting the pope.

Okay, yeah, poop gate, poop gate was trending poopy pants by and he was trending I've been having a field day with this my Twitter which is normally diarrhea has become literally diarrhea are you would would you be surprised to learn that this was true.

Absolutely not I've actually and they're all unconfirmed rumors so I don't say anything about them I've been hearing that this is a second you know like a half time occupation.

Of half of the White House staff as it is is to follow around and play clean up so I've been here in this for months so the last thing that this is a surprising to me I don't know if any of that's true but it's like the dudes old he's clearly not all there.

Oh, I think last time I was with you I even talked about you can't make fun of somebody with dementia and you're like hold my beer and I will.

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