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Welcome to the day change show part of the Ring of Podcast. Now we're presented by Major

Don't We Here. Thank you. You'll let Tango as always hope everyone is staying safe and healthy

as possible with Omicron everywhere. That being said, we have one of my most anticipated guests

we've ever had. Dr Henry Lewis Gage Jr., but he doesn't like to be called Dr. he likes to be

called professor and even though he asked Chris and myself to refer him as Skip, we couldn't. We

just couldn't. And if you don't know professor Gates, he's one of the most distinguished academics,

documentarians, researchers. He is the professor at Harvard University, the director of Harvard's

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. He's the author of more than 20 books.

We find out he's a what is it? 59 honorary doctorates Chris. He has 59 honorary degrees. I was so

intimidated by this dude. Yeah, I'm so intimidated. He's been distinguished as a MacArthur fellow,

which is known as the Genius Award. Right. An Emmy winner and the recipient of numerous other

honors. Yeah, he's the man. And Chris and I basically didn't speak too much. And that's the

best podcast we've ever had because you get to listen to one of the great minds, one of the most

eloquent, articulate, almost, you know, one of those people with a photographic memory that never

says they have a photographic memory because clearly he does. Right. Yeah. He's on the show because

he's also among all of those amazing credits, the host and creator, I guess, of finding your roots

on PBS. It's like, wild, the successful show that you were on a couple of weeks ago. That's right.

That's right. Check it out. I learned a lot. I learned a lot without revealing too much, but it was

it was a hell of a thing to see my father's first menu in 1973. I learned a lot about my grandfather,

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