Dave Chappelle- The Salt Analogy

it's so much bigger than money though dave it's so much bigger than money oh

no it was bigger than money but you know what i watched one of these nature shows one time and they were talking about how a bushman finds water when it's scarce and they do what's called a salt trap i didn't notice apparently baboons love salt

okay

so they put a lump of salt in a hole and they wait for the baboon.

The baboon comes, sticks his hand in the hole, grabs the salt, salt makes his hand bigger, and he's trapped, he can't get his hand out.

And if he's smart, all he does is let go of the salt.

Baboon doesn't want to let go of the salt.

Then the bushman just comes, takes the baboon, throws him in the cage, and gives him all the salt he wants.

And then the baboon gets thirsty.

The bushman lets him out of the cage.

The first place the baboon runs to is water.

Bushman follows him, and they both drink to their fill.

And in that analogy, I felt like the baboon.

But I was smart enough to let go of the song.