462. Billionaires Are Boring with David Gate

Well, the name of this game is that we just share the okay things that we have observed or experienced, and we spread those out into the world.

Yeah.

So I would love to know what's on your list.

Um, okay.

Top of my list, 'cause it's fresh in my mind, is yesterday I did a poetry reading at, um, First Baptist Church in Asheville, uh, North Carolina, and, um, I haven't done many poetry readings in Baptist churches in, in, in the South, and so was not sure how it was gonna go down with my- ... you know, work and my potty mouth and my, um, politics.

And, um, it was amazing.

It was an incredibly beautiful experience.

I found the people, um, to be very warm and welcoming to what I was saying.

And, uh, I, I got asked a question about, um, you know, why, why am I...

Uh, this is a question I get all the time at the moment, which is, "Why are you living in America? Why don't you just go back to England and-

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... live there where, where it's cute and, you know, romantic and all that." And I was explaining about how I actually, uh, have grown to like it here.

But I am gonna dismantle white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy, and they all cheered in this First Baptist Asheville, um, church, and, uh, that was a delight for me.

Like, it was-

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I, I felt like, oh, wow, things can change.

And most of what I hear about Baptist churches in the South is not, uh, great.

And so, [chuckles] so to be in a room full of people, um, who, uh, seem to be on the same page as me, um, that was, that was actually very hopeful, very encouraging.

Um, made me think, oh, well, we can, we can go somewhere.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We can go somewhere.

I love that.

I love when people surprise you, and I love reminders that, uh, there's depth to people and experiences and places that we aren't expecting.