Jad Abumrad

That's so bizarre.

It's like if you were to skin me and my 70-year-old self is inside of me or something.

Wait, and the wings also survive the goo?

Yeah, so it's like the caterpillar will actually start to grow little tiny adult parts that are super thin and transparent.

And it just keeps them tightly rolled up and hidden up against the edges of the chrysalis.

But they don't actually ever go through the goo or become the goo.

I don't know, it's kind of eerie.

Like, it's not just what of me carries forward into the future.

It's like, what of my future self is in me right now?

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He's singing about all the injustices of post-colonial Africa.

He's calling out dictators by name.

He's giving sort of broad history lessons.

Well, it's great to be here, and that means a lot, Terry.